HIT: Country information sites

[Jody Newman <newmanj@MEOL.MASS.EDU>]

Thanks to everyone who gave me the following sites to try for my 5th
graders country searches.....I've been to most and they are terrific:

http://www.ala.org/ICONN/KCFAQ/countrie.html
Good place to start! This one lists many other places to go which are
listed below for the most part.

http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation/e_infonation.htm

http://www.city.net/

http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/country-frame.html
the personal favorite of many responders

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

http://www.atlapedia.com/online/country_index.htm

http://www.embpage.org/foreign.html

http://www.n-polk.k12.ia.us/Pages/Departments/media/country.html
A very lovely site - also go to the bottom and get back to the homepage
and see all the other goodies this site offers!

http://www.state.gov/www/background_notes/index.html

http://www.abcnews.com/reference/countries/
can get anthems here

http://geography.miningco.com/
Has a Geography Quiz that is neat.

http://www.capecod.net/schrockguide/world/worldci.htm

http://www.hc.cc.tx.us/library/nation.htm

http://members.tripod.com/~shirish_kalele/
http://www.emulateme.com/anthems/index.htm
two sites for National Anthems - written and audible

http://www.indo.com/cgi-bin/dist
Neat site that computes distances from place to place

http://www.fodors.com/
Be VERY careful to type this address correctly...if you leave off the S
you will be at a XXX site!

http://www.britcoun.org/
Site that links to countries w/British councils

http://www.cernet.edu.cn/
Chinese site

http://sunsite.unc.edu/gaelic/
Irish/Gaelic site

http://lanic.utexas.edu/las.html

http://www.unesco.org/whc/heritage.htm

http://www.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/

Have a ball!

Thanks to everyone!

Jody Newman
Library Aide
Center School
Stow, MA
newmanj@meol.mass.edu

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