Virtual Reference Desk : International

For international newspapers, see Virtual Reference Desk: Electronic Newspapers
For additional International resources, see Political Science Subject Portal

• Background Notes (information on countries by the U.S. State Dept.)
• Countries A to Z (maps, facts and statistics)
• Flags of the World
• InfoNation (statistical data for member states of the United Nations)
• International Data Base (IDB) (demographic and socioeconomic data by the U.S. Bureau of the Census)
• Internet Country Codes
• Library of Congress Country Studies
• NationMaster.com (statistics on many categories, by country, with graphs)
• Portals to the World
• Russian and East European Network Information Center
• United Nations
  • United Nations Radio News
• World Data Analyst (create charts and tables based on statistics on many categories by country)
• The World Factbook (annual survey of countries prepared by CIA)
• Yahoo: Regional: Countries (links to individual pages by country)
• Yahoo: Regional: Regions (links to individual pages by region)

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