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 International Information


    Foreign Governments & Embassies   l   General

Geography   l    Multiculturalism    l    News & Issues    l   Statistics 
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 Foreign Governments & Embassies
 
Chiefs of State & Cabinet Members:
 
    Search for these dignitaries of foreign governments.

 Constitution Finder: 
     "This database offers constitutions, charters, amendments, and other related documents."

 The Electronic Embassy: 
     Provides information on the embassies in Washington, DC with links to Web-based resources where available.

 Foreign Governments Constitutions, Laws, & Treaties: 
     The U of Michigan provides these links to a variety of documents regarding foreign governments.

 Governments on the World Wide Web: 
     A list of links to international governments and institutions that maintain sites on the Internet.

 

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 General 
 
Background Notes: 
     Background Notes provides info on geographic entities and international organizations. From the U.S. State Department.

 World Factbook: 
     Info on various countries from the CIA World Factbook.

 G8 Information Centre: 
     Information on the G8 trade organization that includes the USA, Canada, Italy, France, Germany Japan, the UK, and Russia.

 International Organizations Web Sites: 
     From the Yearbook of International Organizations. Find the organization name, acronym, & links to other info.

 Internet Country Guide: 
     Find
resources on conflict & ethnicity specific to countries & regions.  Access info by continent and country

 National Anthems: 
     This site provides national anthem lyrics for a variety of countries. Site includes English translations and audio files.

 Nations of the World: Anthems, Flags, Maps, Weather: 
     Links to the above facts on the nations of the world.

 Search UK: 
     This search engine searches only sites located in the UK.

 World Time Server: 
     Search an extensive list of countries, or one of major cities, and simply click on the name to find out the current time.

 

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 Geography
 Country Studies/Area Handbooks: 
     A continuing series of online books prepared by the Library of Congress covering 85 countries and offering in-depth info such as history, demography,
     and government.

 Geographic.org: 
     Find info on countries, flags, maps, county codes, and statistics.

 Maps of the Americas:
     From the Perry-Castaneda Library at the University of Texas at  Austin. The maps were produced by the CIA, and they include relief maps to political
     maps, both old and new.

 World Factbook: 
     Info on various countries from the CIA World Factbook.

 

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 Multiculturalism
 Chicano Visual Arts Digital Image Collection: 
     Over 1,300 images and their descriptions from the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives (CEMA) UC Santa Barbara's library.

 Immigration and Multicultural Studies: 
     Provides links to 50 information facilities worldwide.

 The Multicultural Pavilion: 
     Contains articles, quotations, proverbs, song lyrics, historical speeches and documents, and more to facilitate teaching of multicultural issues.

 

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 News & Issues
 ABC News

 African News Agency

 BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation)

 CBS News

 CNN Online

 The Drudge Report

 International News

 

 Statistics
 Global Statistics: 
     A large collection of data, ranging from in-depth country profiles to the highest mountains in the world, and more.  Search by continent or the entire
     world.

 InfoNation:
     An easy-to-use, two-step database for viewing & comparing statistical data for Member States of the United Nations. Provided by the U.N.

 International Affairs Resources: 
     Browse annotated links covering many areas of international affairs.  Organized by subject, world area, and organization type.

 

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For more materials on this subject available through the Library, visit Starting Points - Countries.
 

 

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