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BBC Country Profile
A wealth of data for individual countries & territories including history, economics, and politics.
"The CIA World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities. References include maps of the major world regions, as well as Flags of the World, a Physical Map of the World, a Political Map of the World, and a Standard Time Zones of the World map."
World Leaders
"The CIA publishes and updates the online directory of Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments regularly. The directory is intended to be used primarily as a reference aid and includes as many governments of the world as is considered practical, some of them not officially recognized by the United States." https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/world-leaders-1/index.html
"The CIA publishes and updates the online directory of Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments regularly. The directory is intended to be used primarily as a reference aid and includes as many governments of the world as is considered practical, some of them not officially recognized by the United States." https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/world-leaders-1/index.html
"Portals to the World contains selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world. They are arranged by country or area with the links for each sorted into a wide range of broad categories. The links were selected by Area Specialists and other Library staff using Library of Congress selection criteria."
NAW: National Anthems of the World Organization
Composer, title, and history surrounding every current national anthem in the world is available; lyrics can be purchased, but are also accessible through other on-line sites.
Flags of the World: http://flagspot.net/flags/
World Travel Guide: http://www.worldtravelguide.net/country/
City Latitude & Longitude from the Getty Museum! http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/
Native or Ethnic Dress: http://www.costumes.org/ethnic/1pages/ethnolnk.htm
Lexicool: A searchable directory of free language dictionaries and glossaries. www.lexicool.com