GEOGRAPHY
RESOURCES
GEOGRAPHY
RESOURCES
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.
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
NAME SERVER
Searchable index of facts and figures about cities
located mainly in the U.S.
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.
HOW FAR
IS IT?
This site will report the distance between two places
or the exact latitude and longitude, population, and elevation of a location.
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.
INFOPLEASE: COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD
Good, kid friendly site for quick facts about the
countries of the world.
LIBRARY
OF CONGRESS COUNTRY STUDIES
Site contains information put together by the U.S.
government that is well organized and up-to-date.
MY WONDERFUL WORLD
National Geographic Society has launched this web site to support a national campaign to give students power of global knowledge.
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.
UNIVERSAL CURRENCY
CONVERTER
Find the exchange rate for many currencies world-wide.
EMUSUEM
This exhibit is a collection of languages spoken throughout
the world. The exhibit gives audio examples of languages from ten language
groups, and information about languages and linguistics.
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.
FOODS
OF THE WORLD
Explore culture through food customs. Search
the database for recipes; click on "Customs" for a list of cultures.
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.
DESTINATIONS
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.
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.
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.
WORLD CLOCK
Time and forecasts world wide.
OFFICIAL U. S. TIME
Provided by the U. S. government find any time using an interactive map.
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.
Revised 7/30/08