OC Library: Geography Web Sites

Web Sites: INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

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Afghanistan Online: A privately owned, independent web site that provides updated news and information on Afghanistan.
Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent: The goal of this project, sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, is to provide the general public with a selection of the images and sounds with the hope that this will enhance the study and understanding of the many facets of the African continent. It brings together images captured on slides and in photographs as well as sound recordings on reel-to-reel and audio cassette that have been reproduced and stored on digital files accessible by any computer of a reasonable minimum capacity.
CIA World Factbook: The factbook provided by the Central Intelligence Agency that provides geographic and other information about most countries in the world.
Country Studies: A continuing series of books prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the Department of the Army. This online series presently contains studies of 85 countries.
Federal Statistical Office, Germany: Provides the German equivalent of U.S. Census data.
History in the News: The Middle East: Provides links to resources for the study of the Middle East.
Latin American Network Information Center: From Peruvian recipes to Chilean economic policies, LANIC provides vast resources, and can be accessed in English, Spanish, or Portuguese.
Portals to the World: The Library of Congress has created a site containing "selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world."
UK 2004: The officIal yearbook of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Includes text, figures, tables, maps, and charts that provide an overview of the UK.
United Nations Cartographic Section: Provides access to more than 100 non-U.S. maps organized by region and country.

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