Geography

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Geography

• Administrative Divisions of Countries ("Statoids") - Worldwide reference for states, provinces, governorates, counties, districts, and other subdivisions of countries.
• Canadian Council for Geographic Education - Aims to strengthen geographic education in the classroom, and to increase the public awareness of the importance of geographical literacy.
• The Columbia Gazetteer of North America - Comprehensive encyclopedia of geographical places and features.
• CountryWatch.com:Website to The World - Country Information: including current political, historical, economic, environemental, demographic data.
• Cyber-Geography Research - An initiative to map cyberspace, this site contains a variety of pages dedicated to helping the viewing not only understand "cyber geography" but to visualize it as well.
• The Degree Confluence Project - The Degree Confluence Project contains photographs of the intersections of integer latitude and longitude degree lines.
• Environmental Geography - Dr. James Hayes Bohanan - Geography of the environment, and the use of the web in higher education.
• European Spatial Planning Resource and Information Database (ESPRID) - The database focuses on the spatial dimensions of territorial development processes and the spatial impacts of EU, national, regional and local policies across the European continent.
• Footnotes to History - Indexed reference site that provides an overview of ephemeral states, micronations, secessionist states, and related entities. Includes links to related photographs, documents, and other resources.
• Geographical - A site that explores the world. The online resource on travel for schools, professionals and enthusiasts alike.
• Geographic.org - Learn about world geography, climate, countries, people, maps, and flags. Intended for elementary through junior high school students.
• The Geography Exchange - A combination of teaching resources, lessons and indexes of website links with an emphasis on physical geography.
• Geography Resource Center - Internet Resources for Geographers
• Geography World - A massive collection of links on all aspects of geography.
• Geo-Guide - A subject gateway to scholarly information in earth science, geography and mining. From the Goettingen State and University Library.
• Geosource - Web resources for human geography, physical geography, planning, geoscience and environmental science. Provided by Utrecht University Library.
• GIS and Mapping Links - Links to Geography, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Mapping sites on the internet. All links are verified every month.
• Global Geografia - Country data, maps and flags and other geographic information.
• Global Population Project - Current population figures for cities, towns and regions of countries.
• Global Statistics - A collection of tables and graphs providing a statistical look at countries, their population, area, capital, and main cities.
• History of the International Date Line - Extensive information on the circumnavigator's paradox and the history of its resolution.
• Infoplease Political and Reference Atlas - Infoplease Atlas has political maps of each region, country, and state with links to reference information.
• Information Please: Geography Resource - Geographic facts, lists, and statistics, including highest mountains, longest rivers, latitudes and longitudes, and explorations and expeditions.
• Map Quiz - Map and Geography Trivia - Map and Geography trivia game. Questions include countries, U.S. States, capitals and flags.
• Mega Maps - Walk through the Continents - Free PC program to print out US or world maps of various sizes, up to 7 feet across, on an ordinary printer. Requires Windows 3.1, 95 or 98.
• Mr. Dowling's Electronic Passport - An online geography class where students journey through time and space. Discover different people and cultures and further your study by following links.
• NationbyNation: Reference on Countries of the Globe - History, geography, maps, economics, society as well as links and news feeds.
• The START Natural Language Question Answering System - A system designed to answer questions that are posed in natural language. The system is especially equipped to answer geography queries.
• US Census Bureau Geography - Mapping products and services, as well as geography resources used to compile the US Census.
• US State Department - Dependencies and Areas of Special Sovereignty - Listing of nations recognized by the US government.
• US State Department - Independent States of the World - Independent states with diplomatic relations with U.S. and member of UN. Country capitals, and names.
• The Web of Culture - About cross-cultural communication. Also provides general geographic and social education on foreign nations and cultures, for preparation for visits from foreign countries.
• World Gazetteer - Information about current population of countries, their administrative divisions, cities and towns as well as images of the current national flags.
• World Island Info - Information on the world's islands, including island superlatives.
• World Wide Web Virtual Library - Geography - Web directory of resources in Geography, including educational links.
• Your Own Language and Country - Information and links about all countries: tourism, dictionaries, search engines, life and religion.