BigEye International Center - Information, resources for 144 countries. The latest news, country profiles, history, people, business, culture, arts, travel information and more.
BBC News Country Profiles - Full profiles provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions. They also include audio or video clips from BBC archives.
CIA World Factbook - Country profiles providing information on geography, people, economy, government, communications, transportation, military and transnational issues:
Country Indicators for Foreign Policy (CIFP) - Identifies and assembles statistical information conveying the key features of the political, economic, social and cultural environments of countries around the world.
Country Profiles - Provided by the UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office (UK).
Country Studies - This website contains the on-line versions of books previously published in hard copy by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress as part of the Country Studies/Area Handbook Series sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Army between 1986 and 1998. Each study offers a comprehensive description and analysis of the country or region's historical setting, geography, society, economy, political system, and foreign policy.
CountryProfiler - Executive summaries, information on countries and people, government and politics, economies, foreign direct investment, products and trade, and infrastructure.
CountryReports - Country reports from around the world, including defense, economy, flags, geography, government, maps, news, weather.
CountryWatch - Provides up-to-date international, political and economic forecast and analysis, country reports, and news that affects the global economy and forecasts on each of the recognized countries of the world.
East and Southeast Asia - An annotated directory of Internet resources on the politics, society, history and culture of East and Southeast Asia, and on Asian-Americans in North America. Countries and political units covered: China; Japan; North Korea; South Korea; Hong Kong; Macau; Taiwan; Mongolia; Brunei; Burma; Cambodia; Indonesia; Laos; Malaysia; Philippines; Singapore; Thailand; Vietnam.
Economist.com: Topics - Articles from The Economist, background profiles, forecast and statistics from The Economist Intelligence Unit, market and currency updates, news headlines and links.
EIU City Data - A global database of over 315 price and salary levels providing information on the cost of living in 123 cities worldwide from 1990 to the present.
EIU Country Data - A comprehensive database of economic indicators and forecasts, covering 278 series for 117 countries, as well as 40 regional aggregates, running from 1980 and forecasting out five years.
EIU Market Indicators and Forecasts - A powerful database of economic, demographic, consumption and industry data on 60 major countries, stretching back to 1990 and forward five years.
Europa World - First published in 1926, the year book is renowned as one of the world's leading reference works, covering political and economic information in over 250 countries and territories, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.
Guide to Law Online (Law Library of Congress) - An annotated compendium of sources accessible through the Internet. Links provide access to primary documents, legal commentary, and general government information about specific jurisdictions and topics.
Index Mundi - Country profiles.
This site contains detailed country information, charts, and maps compiled from multiple sources.
International Consitutional Law (ICL) - ICL provides English translations of and other textual material related to constitutional documents. It cross-references those documents for quick comparison of constitutional provisions.
Library of Congress: Country Studies - Contains the on-line versions of books previously published in hard copy by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Army. The focus is primarily on lesser known areas of the world. At present, 101 countries and regions are covered. Notable omissions include Canada, France, the United Kingdom, and other Western nations, as well as a number of African nations.
Lonely Planet - Some of the world's best guidebooks for independent travelers.
NationMaster - Encyclopedia of rulers, country profiles, statistics, flags, maps, scatterplots, pie charts.
Portals of the World - Selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world. Maintained by the U.S. Libray of Congress.
Principal Cities and Agglomerations - Statistics and maps about the population of the major agglomerations of the world. For many countries, information about the population of their administrative areas and the principal cities is provided.
Tourism Offices Worldwide Directory (TOWD) - Index listing official government tourism offices, convention and visitors bureaus, and similar agencies worldwide. Includes U.S. state tourist information as well.
U.S. Department of State: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - The Country Reports on Human Rights Practices are submitted annually by the U.S. Department of State to the U.S. Congress. The reports cover internationally recognized individual, civil, political, and worker rights, as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Wikipedia Country Profiles - This list of countries, arranged alphabetically, gives an overview of countries of the world. It includes territories that are independent states (both those that are internationally recognized and generally unrecognized), inhabited dependent territories, and areas of special sovereignty.
World Bank Key Development Data and Statistics/Country Profiles - Country profiles are drawn from the World Development Indicators (WDI) database - the World Bank's primary database for cross-country comparable development data. The indicators shown here are also available through online database tools.
World Competitiveness Yearbook (WCY) - Analyzes and ranks the ability of nations to create and maintain an environment that sustains the competitiveness of enterprises. Considered the worldwide reference point to world competitiveness, it has been published without interruption since 1989 and ranks 55 national economies using 323 criteria.
World Statesmen - An encyclopedia of nations, colonies, international and religious organizations, and other polities.
WorldAtlas.com - An atlas of maps, flags, geography facts and more.
worldinformation.com - Business, political and economic information on all the world's 228 countries and territories.
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