Hackney Library: Geography: Country/Region Information

Country/Region Information

Some of these resources are subscription databases that will prompt you for your Barton username and password for off-campus access, while others are simply links that require no passwords to access from off campus.

The World Factbook This link opens in a new window
Includes country profiles developed by the CIA on nations of the world, listed alphabetically by country name.
NationMaster This link opens in a new window
This site includes over 5,700 statistics on countries around the world, which have been culled from reliable sources such as the CIA World Factbook, UN, World Health Organization, World Bank, UNESCO, and more. The two primary ways to search the site are via the "Top Stats" or "Countries A - Z" links at the top of the page. Statistics are grouped into some 30 major categories, including agriculture, economy, education, health, labor, lifestyle, military, religion, and sports. Country information includes overviews for each country, with information on government, economy, religion, flags, etc. The site also includes some 7,000 historical and current maps of the world that can either be printed or imported into documents.

History in the News: The Middle East
Produced by the SUNY-Albany History Department, this wonderful site for information on this currently very much "in the news" region features links to information on history, culture, society, religion, economics, politics, maps, and news and news media in the Middle East proper (it does not include the Sudan or the Maghreb--Northern Africa).

Business Market Research Collection This link opens in a new window
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Although this is a business marketing database, it has some valuable information on geography-related topics, including country profiles from OxResearch.