中央情报局每周出版和更新全球国家首脑和外交政府内阁成员的在线目录。 该目录主要用作参考援助，包括世界上被认为是实际的政府，其中一些政府尚未得到美国的正式承认。 NDE的缩写表示美国没有外交交流的制度。
按照每个国家名称的最常用版本按字母顺序列出。 此目录中的个人姓名的拼写遵循美国政府机构普遍使用的音译系统，除非官员声明偏好其姓名的替代拼写。
The Central Intelligence Agency publishes and updates the online directory of Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments weekly. The directory is intended to be used primarily as a reference aid and includes as many governments of the world as is considered practical, some of them not officially recognized by the United States. Regimes with which the United States has no diplomatic exchanges are indicated by the initials NDE.
Governments are listed in alphabetical order according to the most commonly used version of each country's name. The spelling of the personal names in this directory follows transliteration systems generally agreed upon by US Government agencies, except in the cases in which officials have stated a preference for alternate spellings of their names.