HIT: Sites for Countries

[Janice Bjorke <jbjorke@EMRY.NET>]

A HUGE thanks to everyone who sent me informations and here is a HIT!  I =
WOWED my teacher this morning and we are well on our way to an exciting =
project!   It's great to have you all to rely on, especially for a first =
year librarian!  Hope this hit helps all of you who asked!  Thanks =
again!

Janice Bjorke
Crownhill Elementary
Bremerton, WA



Country Codes at:
http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/websoft/wwwstat/country-codes.txt
http://leb.net/reader/text/standards/ISO/ISO-3166
Lyn Crawford
Library Media Specialist=20
Belinder Elementary School
Shawnee Mission, KS
Bill7728@aol.com



Just such information about countries is what we in Texas have been
battling for. Our TENET site <http://www.tenet.edu> has been furnishing
us with links to our TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills)
requirements. If you can access that site (don't know if you can since
you aren't in Texas), click on RESOURCES on the home page, then go to
HALLS OF ACADEMIA, then click on HALLS OF GEOGRAPHY
 Betty Dawn Hamilton * bhamilt@tenet.edu
           Librarian*Tenet Master Trainer*News Group Moderator
           LM_NET Directory Volunteer*TLJ Contributing Editor
                         Freelance Writer/Editor
                Brownfield High School*Brownfield, Texas



 have six websites for this topic on my social studies resources web =
page:

http://www.gsh.org/schools/USA/GA/PGE5061/Socialst.htm

Scroll down to Countries of the World below the Geography section.

Dianne Prager, Librarian
Pleasant Grove Elementary School
Stockbridge, GA
PGES LMS@aol.com


http://www.wtgonline.com/info.html

--=20
Sarah Lantz, Media Specialist
West Frederick Middle School
Frederick, MD 21701


State Department Background Notes on Countries:
http://www.state.gov/www/background_notes/index.html

Countries:  Click on the map
http://www.city.net/
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html

Geopedia
http://www.geopedia.com/

TraveloCity:  Pick a City
http://ps.worldview.travelocity.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/GUIDGX-{88005056-06B7-=
125c-968E-08002073666F}

 Becky Smith       Rusk ISD
 District Media Coordinator
 Rusk, TX    bsmith @ lcc.net


A message on LMNet earlier this year listed this site as having=20
information on each country -

 http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/pubs.html

The instructions were to select "1996 Fact Book" and then select the=20
appropriate country.
I hope this works for you, I haven't personally tried it.=20
Good luck

Ardella Lagerquist
LME Grad Student
a.lagerquist@mankato.msus.edu


Try the CIA factbook
        http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/95fact/index.html

Jean
--=20
R. Jean Gustafson
Library Media Specialist
Lince Elementary
Selah School District               a.k.a   QUEEN OF SHELVIE THINGS
316 W. Naches Ave.
Selah, WA 98942
509-697-0675  ext 665


I have some Countries and Cultures links from this site:

http://www.n-polk.k12.ia.us/Pages/Departments/media/country.html

Patricia Moore, Media Specialist
North Polk Jr. Sr. High School
Alleman IA 50007
moore@comet.n-polk.k12.ia.us
http://www.n-polk.k12.ia.us/Pages/Departments/media/MediaCenter.html
*****

You might want to get the most recent edition of "The Internet Yellow
Pages," by Harley Hahn (Osborn McGraw-Hill).  It has a section on World
Cultures that should be very helpful.  (I think that EVERY library =
should
have it.)

Regards,

Ken Umbach



I would recommend Excite's City.Net=20
http://www.city.net=20
then from within each countries site you will get access to the CIA
World Factbook
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/nsolo/wfb-all.htm

Lonna J. Beers
Reference Librarian                     lonna.beers@nhmccd.edu
Montgomery College                      ljbeers@main.com=20
Conroe, Texas



Here is a site that may interest you...

        http://www.world-travel-net.co.uk/country/

You can search the world by individual countries or by regions.=20

Susan Inak     Media Specialist     sinak@netgsi.com
Southampton Middle School
Bel Air, MD  21014

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