If you have any feedback on how we can make our new website better please do contact us. We would like to hear from you.		GEOGRAPHY The World Fact Book http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html CIA World Factbook has maps and information about every country in the world. Country Reports http://www.countryreports.org Features over 260 countries. Historical, cultural and statistical information. Basic information is free and with a subscription of $1.50 expanded country profilesare available. State and Country Quick Facts http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/index.html From the US Census Bureau quick easy access to facts about people, business, and geography. Flags of the World http://www.atlasgeo.net/fotw/flags/index.html This site has 60,000 flags to view and 32,000 pages about flags. There are many useful links such as coloring pages, report help, when to fly the flag and more. NASA: World Wind 1.4 http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov Satellite imagery from NASA that lets you zoom in to any place on Earth in 3-D Google Earth http://earth.google.com Satellite imagery and maps combined with the Google search engine. National Geographic Xpeditions http://nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions Xpeditions is home to the U.S. National Geography Standards—and to thousands of ideas, tools, and interactive adventures that bring them to life. TerraServer http://terraserver.microsoft.com Repository of aerial photographs and satellite images taken from miles overhead that you can view online or purchase. Features digitized aerial photos of the United ... How Far Is It? http://www.indo.com/distance Courtesy of Indo.com, this service uses data from the US Census and a supplementary list of cities around the world to find the latitude and longitude of two places, and then calculates the distance between them (as the crow flies). It also provides a map showing the two places, using the Xerox PARC Map Server. www.geographic.org http://www.photius.com/rankings/population.html Population stats Color Landform Atlas http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states Shaded relief maps, satellite images, various types of maps for every state. Want to know what the U>S> looked like in 1895? Look here. Country at a Glance http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/infonation/index.asp Selecting a country from a drop down menu gives you a web page with brief information about a country as well as a mapof the country and a world map depicting the location of the country. Country Studies from the Library of Congress http://www.b2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html This Web site contains brief, more up-to-date Country Profiles on select countries. Portals to the World from Library of Congress http;//www.loc.gov.rr.international/portals.html Library of Congress links to electronic resources from around the world. Geospy http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geospy Interactive website. You have 180 seconds to find all the states. You can also do continents and countries. Geohive http://www.geohive.com/default1.aspx Geohive is useful for researching geographic and country data, demographic info and global trends. National Atlas List of maps formatted to be viewed, printed, or downloaded. Countries of the World Site based on the CIA World Factbook. Each country entry has an "International Issues" link. http://www.theodora.com/wfb Library of Congress Country Studies http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html U S Stae Department's Background Notes http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn Background Notes The publications listed below include facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty. The Background Notes are updated/revised by the Office of Electronic Information and Publications of the Bureau of Public Affairs as they are received from the Department's regional bureaus. Link

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