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GEOGRAPHY & WORLD CULTURES RESOURCES  
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FACTS, STATISTICS, COUNTRY PROFILES

 ATLAPEDIA
Full color physical and political maps and statistics about countries around the world.

 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK
Brief facts and up-to-date statistics on many of the countries of the world.

COUNTRY REPORTS
Good brief facts about all the countries of the world, including the flags, anthem, and useful web links to other sources.

DISTANCE CALCULATOR
This site will report the distance between two places or the exact latitude and longitude, population and elevation of a location.

DIVERSITY CALENDAR
Monthly listing of holidays around the world that can be sorted by ethnic, religious celebrations, national holidays, and other events.

GEOGRAPHIC.ORG
Find basic geographic information and statistics about all the countries of the world.   Key sections include Climate, Country Ranks, Flags, Maps, and Health.

GEOGRAPHIC NAMES: USGS
Searchable database to verify names and locations of places in the U.S. Links to the GEOnet Names Server (GNS) for worldwide searches.

GLOBAL GATEWAY
New from the Library of Congress, this page links digital resources, databases, and libraries across the world and the library's collections.   See especially Portals to the World for direct links to web sites from many countries; International Cybercasts for web casts of speeches and performances at the library about diverse cultures; International Exhibitions are online versions of special exhibits at the library drawn from various world cultures.

HUMAN GENOGRAPHIC PROJECT: HUMAN MIGRATIONS
New project from National Geographic studies human genetics and ancestry. Interactive maps "Altas of Human Journey" and "Globe of Human History" plot how the our planet was populated.

INFONATION
This site allows users to compare statistics from United Nation member countries. Users can choose up to seven countries at once to compare by checking the box next to each country.

INTERNATIONAL DATABASE
This site provides statistical tables of demographic and socioeconomic facts for 227 countries.

INTERNATIONAL ROOT ZONE DATABASE
Official listing of "country codes" or domain extensions for all the nations of the world.

INFOPLEASE: COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD
Good, kid friendly site for quick facts about the countries of the world.

JOURNEY OF MANKIND: PEOPLING THE WORLD
This interactive web site from the Bradshaw Foundations depicts the global journey of modern man over the past 160,000 years. This maps shows the interaction of migration and climate over this period.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS COUNTRY STUDIES
Site contains information put together by the U.S. government that is well organized and up-to-date.

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC EDUCATION BETA SITE    
National Geographic Society has launched this web site to support a national campaign to give students power of global knowledge.   Explore beautiful National Geographic photography and film, a growing reference library to support student homework and research, an interactive mapping portal, and this new Compass newsletter (formerly My Wonderful World).

NATION MASTER 
The Nation Master is an excellent resource for finding out any number of current details about many countries in the world.  Use this web site to create graphs and charts to display and compare data.

WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION: HEALTH PROFILES
WHO ranks countries by the relative health of many of the world's populations.

WORLD HERITAGE   
UNESCO's World Heritage Center Web site offers a brief description and a photo of each of the hundreds of protected cultural and natural World Heritage sites.  Searchable, also see the link to the "list" for a complete alphabetical list by country.

WORLD DIGITAL LIBRARY
This new project from UNESCO is collecting together outstanding primary documents that relate to world cultures.  Browse the interactive map for outstanding reproductions of photographs, maps, and documents.

UNIVERSAL CURRENCY CONVERTER
Find the exchange rate for many currencies world-wide.

CULTURAL &  SPECIAL SITES

EXPEDITIONS
Also from National Geographic, this huge and growing site for geography educators and students contains more than a hundred original lesson plans and after school activities. Links to 1,800 free maps designed for printing or building web pages.

GLOBAL GOURMET
Global Destinations provides recipes and facts about the cuisine of 36 countries/regions.

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SEARCH
This is the search page on the National Geographic site; from this page you can search their Map Machine and access the index to National Geographic Magazine by clicking on "publications index."

PEACE CORPS KIDS
Interactive web site teaches about the mission of the Peace Corps.

SOAR: SEARCHABLE ONLINE ARCHIVE OF RECIPES
This is the work of college students at Berkeley and includes about 70,000 recipes.

WORLD FLAG DATABASE
A great flag web site.

TRAVEL AND DESTINATIONS 

LONELY PLANET
This is the search page for the Web site LONELY PLANET, a beautifully designed page that delivers basic information about most nations on the earth.

FODOR'S TRAVEL
Travel information for tourists from the publishers of the popular travel guides.

GEOGRAPHICA
Geographica is a wonderful way to explore the world.

PORTAL SITES 

ENCHANTED LEARNING: GEOGRAPHY
Geography links from enchanted learning offers many links and activities for younger students.

KID INFO REFERENCE RESOURCES: THE WORLD
Bookmark this site if you are interested in knowing more about the world's countries.  This is a gateway to many other web sites organized by categories such as Currencies of the World, World Holidays, Festivals, Maps and more.

WORLD ATLAS
More than just an another online atlas, this site provides loads of general geographic information about the countries of the world.  See the links on latitude and longitudes and "the list" that brings up detailed information about countries of the world.

 GAMES 

FIND YOUR LONGITUDE
Game developed for the program, NOVA, interactive introduction to longitude. (Requires Shockwave software)

LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE MAP MATCH GAME
Several games and maps.  Fun.

LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE POSITION FINDER
Use this resource to identify the latitude and longitude position of any point within the United States

GEONET
Fun way to learn geography with this interactive game from Eduplace.

OWL AND MOUSE
Free materials including maps, puzzles, and other learning games are found on this site from an educational software company.

WHERE IS THAT?
A great way to learn about states, capitals, countries, and their correct spellings, this is a perfect study guide.

TIME ZONES, ETC.

DATE AND TIME
World clocks, calendars, background on holidays, apps that have to do with time keeping.

OFFICIAL U. S. TIME
Provided by the U. S. government find any time using an interactive map.

DATE AND TIME
World clocks, calendars, background on holidays, apps that have to do with time keeping.

TIME ZONE CHECK
Interactive map and clocks.

TIME SERVICE DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY
The Official Source of Time for the Department of Defense (DoD)
and for the Global Positioning System (GPS), and a Standard of Time for the United States.

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