BBC News: Country Profiles Presents country overviews, basic facts, Web links, and details on leaders and media. Includes news stories and audio and video clips from the BBC archives.
National Geographic Information about the world; its lands, oceans, and cultures. Offers an atlas with maps and satellite images and information concerning the society's research.
Area Guides Online directory covering US, Canada and international locations. Offers travel, real estate, entertainment and recreation.
Cities around the World Photographs of world cities from 1942-1994. Sujects include people,
architecture, city life, neighborhoods.
Country Reports Countries profiles from around the world, flags, history of the countries, reference maps, and national anthems.
Eldis Offers development information. Search for details on economic, political and environmental issues in countries throughout the world. Site available in Spanish and English.
Geographia Destination guides to locations in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, and Latin America.
Governments on the WWW Overviews and collections of information on governments worldwide. Site in English and German.
Library of Congress: Country Studies Presented by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress. Offers detailed information for anyone traveling to, living in or studying each country.
Maplecroft Maps Contains maps of social, economic, environmental, and political issues
internationally. Maps link to country data and profiles.
NationMaster A collection of statistics from nations worldwide. Includes profiles of individual countries including their maps and flags; correlation reports and scatterplots to find relationships between variables; an encyclopedia.
One World - Nations Online Global information, official and tourist sites, regional search engines, cities and capitals.
Population Reference Bureau Presents statistical data and produces reports on international population trends and their implications.
World Atlas.com Explores countries of the world through maps, descriptions, current times, flags, populations, land size, and links to other relevant sites.
World Information Provides facts, country profiles, weather, news and currencies. Membership is required for full access to the site.