Countries - online resources
- Atlapedia Online
“Atlapedia Online contains full color physical maps, political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countiries of the world.” - BBC News: Country Profiles
Up to date profiles of all the countries of the world. - CIA World Factbook
This is the first stop on the Web for information about countries of the world. - Country Comparison Tool
Select up to four world countries or regions and compare demographic, geographic and economic data at the press of a button. - Gapminder World
View, chart, or download country time series data for 400+ indicators (for example: economy, environment, energy, health, infrastructure, population, society, and work) - Index Mundi – Country Facts
IndexMundi is a data portal that gathers facts and statistics from multiple sources and turns them into easy to use visuals. - Nationmaster
This site contains an encyclopedia of nations of the world, contains country profiles, and a graph producer which can produce charts, scatterplots, and pie charts. - New Countries of the World
Matt Rosenberg’s geography guide from About.com. - Showworld – A New Way To Look At The World
World data presented with interactive maps. - United Nations CyberSchoolBus
Includes data on each of the countries of the world, profiles of 20 of the world’s largest cities, and information about the United Nations. - The World Bank Data Catalog
Data and statistics from countries of the world. An excellent database for country comparisons for many economic indicators. - Worldwide Governments on the WWW
A database of governmental institutions from countries of the world.