Geographical: World Data Links
- About Geography
Includes World Atlas with political maps, statistics and back ground information on individual countries, world city maps and blank outline maps. - CIA World Factbook
Basic statistics on demography, economy, infrastructure, health and military and constitutional information for each country of the world. - Eurostat
Statistical office of the European Commission. - GeoExplorer
Resources for students and teachers of geography. Link to Virtual Geology. - NASA Earth Observatory
Create animations over time from datasets relating to sea temperature, cloud cover, heat radiation, vegetation etc and compare patterns of data against one another. - NationMaster
Facility for generating comparative international graphs and maps on a wide range of social and economic data. - OECD [Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development]
Includes statistics on international trade, details of national accounts and growth rates. Statistics Portal has links to statistics by sector. - Portals of the World
US Library of Congress's links to background information on individual countries of the world. - SearchEngineColossus
An international directory of search engines. - U.S. Census [with maps]
- U.S. National Transportation Library
Contains information related to transportation policy, research, operations, and technology transfer activities. - UN Food & Agriculture Organization
Virtual Library includes online catalogue searchable by year and text content and Corporate Document Repository of material in full-text electronic format. - United Nations Statistical Databases
- World Bank Quick Reference Tables
Features international comparisons of GNI, GDP, population and key indicators. - World Flag Database
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