Thanks to many of you who provided dozens of sites. Hopefully this will be
useful to others as well.
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geography
3D Atlas Online Countries
http://www.3datlas.com/main_co.html Countries A-Z
http://www.cantonpl.org/youth/country/ CountryWatch.com
Afghanistan Political, Economic and Environmental Information and News!
http://www.countrywatch.com/files/001/cw_country.asp?vCOUNTRY=001 Cultural
Profiles Project
http://cwr.utoronto.ca/cultural/ Earth Calendar
Celebrate every day!
http://www.earthcalendar.net/ handbook
http://gwu.edu/~gprice/handbook.htm Jumpstation Geo
Canadian Council for Geographic Education
http://www.ccge.org/geosources/jumpstn.htm Map Library
http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-5104.html?wtlAC=gs010201,em
ail-t National Geographic Maps and Geography-atlases, GPS, games
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/maps/ PCL Map Collection
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/Map_collection.html The
Universal Currency Converter(tm)
http://www.xe.net/ucc/ USGS GNIS (GNIS)
http://geonames.usgs.gov/gnisform.html Welcome to Flags Of The World
http://fotw.digibel.be/flags/ WorldView!
Christmas.com Around the World!
http://christmas.com/worldview Yahooligans!
Around the World:Countries
http://www.yahooligans.com/Around_the_World/Countries/
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Try www.atlapedia.com. This is similar to 50states
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A couple of sites our students like:
http://www.countryreports.org
http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html
http://www.fotw.ca/flags (flags of the world)
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Here are two web sites on countries of the world. The first is the
online version of the CIA World Factbook. The second one is
countrywatch.com, but the school-use version. Hope these help!
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
http://www.countrywatch.com/@school/
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Does your school or district purchase WebFeet? They are working their way
through a comprehensive list of the countries of the world.
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The Library of Congress has begun it's Portals of the World series on
countries, to be completed in 2004??
check the LOC web page.
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I have not checked my links recently, so some may be defunct, but check out
the
Geography page on my web site and click "world Geography". The address is:
http://www.gananda.org/library/mshslibrary/geog.htm
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One of my favorites is the CIA World FactBook:
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
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Geography sites
www.lonelyplanet.com
www.atlapedia.com
www.infoplease.com
www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation/e_glance.htm
www.wtech.co.uk/index.html
http://www.wtgonline.com/navigate/world.asp
http://fotw.digibel.be/flags
http://www.embpage.org/
http://www.yahooligans.com/around_the_world/countries/
http://www.countrywatch.com/
http://www.worldskip.com/
http://www.cantonpl.org/youth/country/
http://www.indo.com/distance/ (calculates distances and longitude and
latitude)
http://danshiki.oit.gatech.edu/~iadt3mk/index.html (license plates of the
world)
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/1058/rulers.html (gives you current rulers
of countries)
http://geography.about.com
http://www.geographia.com/
www.embassy.orgwww.lonelyplanet.com
www.atlapedia.com
www.infoplease.com
www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation/e_glance.htm
www.wtech.co.uk/index.html
http://www.wtgonline.com/navigate/world.asp
http://fotw.digibel.be/flags
http://www.embpage.org/
http://www.yahooligans.com/around_the_world/countries/
http://www.countrywatch.com/
http://www.worldskip.com/
http://www.cantonpl.org/youth/country/
http://www.indo.com/distance/ (calculates distances and longitude and
latitude)
http://danshiki.oit.gatech.edu/~iadt3mk/index.html (license plates of the
world)
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/1058/rulers.html (gives you current rulers
of countries)
http://geography.about.com
http://www.geographia.com/
www.embassy.org
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One of the 9th grade teachers who teaches Global Studies has a very good
website
with lots of links on this topic. Some of the sites may be appropriate to 5th
grade students. His url is www.mrlew.net Good Luck
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This web site from Southeast Missouri State University is what I have
linked on my school web page for beginning to search for country info.
http://cstl.semo.edu/modelun/links.html
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I am gradually adding country sites to my library's web page this year as
our world cultures teachers request them. I have sites for countries in
Africa (added these yesterday), Asia and Europe, plus a couple of "world"
links. I get most of my sites from GOOGLE searches, the Librarian's Index
to the Internet (www.lii.org), and LM_Net posts. Here is the link to my
social studies web page. Select "World Cultures" and scroll down to see all
the links.
http://www.springisd.org/bms/library/3socialstudies.html
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www.terraquest.com
www.smm.org/greatestplaces
www.nationalgeographic.com
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I use country studies and the atlapedia site all the time! Their links are:
Country Studies:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
Atlapedia:
http://www.atlapedia.com
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To find information about various countries of the world, try the following
links:
The World Factbook
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
CountryReports.org
http://www.countryreports.org/
Also, please visit our Resource directory at http://www.teacherfocus.com.
Anne Oelke
Library Media Specialist, Computer Coordinator
Cambria-Friesland School District
410 E. Edgewater St.
Cambria, WI 53923-1000
mailto:CFLibrary@cambria-friesland.k12.wi.us
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