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World Information

• ABYZ News Links - is a portal to online news sources from around the world. It is primarily composed of newspapers but also includes many broadcast stations, internet services, magazines, and press agencies.
• All Newspapers.com links to newspapers, media sources, web cams...
• Ancient World Web Web links concerning things of the ancient world.
• CIA World Factbook
• Countries of the World and their capital cities (Graphic Maps)
• EmbassyWeb.com A searchable database of embassy posts worldwide
• Ethnologue The Ethnologue is a catalogue of more than 6,700 languages spoken in 228 countries. The Ethnologue Name Index lists over 39,000 languages names, dialect names, and alternate names. The Ethnologue Language Family Index organizes languages according to language families.
• Flags of the World
• Fielding's DangerFinder Where do you not want to go today?
• Foreign Languages for Travelers Translate all of the common phrases you'll need for a trip! Travlang is committed to providing a variety of useful tools for the traveler and those interested in learning a foreign language. We also provide the user with links to some of the best places on the net already providing some related services.
• InfoNation - Provides statistical data for the Member States of the United Nations.
• Infoplease.com countries of the world
• Library of Congress Country Studies - Information on many countries of the world
• Library of Congress Portals to the World - selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world
• Links to United States Embassies and Consulates worldwide
• Local Times Around the World
• National Anthems and Flags of the World (MIDI, lyrics, animated gifs)
• International Statistical Agencies from the U.S Census Bureau
• National Library Catalogs of the World
• Portals to the World Links to Electronic Resources From Around the World. From the Library of Congress
• Time Zone Page Current time in over 600 cities worldwide.
• Virtual Tourist Concise information on countries
• Yahoo! links to countries of the world
• YellowPages.Com has an extensive section on overseas directories

Online map sources, trip planners, etc.

• Arthur Frommer's BudgetTravel Online
• DeLorme's CyberRouter
• Maps from Excite!'s City.Net
• Mapblast! Search by address, domain, lat./long., airport code, telephone exchange, etc.
• MapQuest
• Online maps from the Perry-Castaņeda Library Map Collection, U. of TX, Austin
• Maps On Us
• Tourism Offices Worldwide Directory. The TOWD is your guide to official tourist information sources. The Directory lists only official government tourism offices, convention and visitors bureaus, chambers of commerce, and similar agencies which provide free, accurate, and unbiased travel information to the public.
• Odden's Bookmarks Maps and links to web sites on countries/regions.
• Worldtime An interactive world atlas, information on local time as well as sunrise and sunset times in several hundred cities, and a database of public holidays worldwide.
• United Nations Cartographic Section Maps and Geographic Information Resources
• Zip2 City guides

World Cams

• EarthRISE photos (searchable) from space
• Leonard's "Cam World"
• Microsoft TerraServer. The "largest" database in the world. Photos of Earth.
• Web Voyeur

http://library.pittstate.edu/other/us-world.html - RS - 20010404

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