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BBC News: Country Profiles  Provides concise information on countries, territories, and selected international organizations.

CountryWatch   An online subscription database providing the latest information about countries around the world.

In the search box above, enter the name of a country or a global issue you would like to research and click the search button. Global Issues in Context, a database published by Gale Cengage, includes a browsable list of current topics on global issues providing full text from a variety of sources, including news, reference books, magazines, journals and more. Geographic regions can also be browsed.

InfoNation Contains geographical, economic, demographic, and social indicators data for all 185 UN member countries.  Convenient and easily navigable.

Library of Congress Country Studies   A continuing series of books prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress...  This on-line series presently contains studies of 85 countries.  The Hermann Memorial Library has many of these titles in paper format in the Reference Collection as well.

Nations of the World: (Nations and Associated Jurisdictions)  From the Law Library of Congress, this site has links to legislative and legal branches of governments of the world.

The Statesman's Yearbook Online 2009  Available only on-campus. This is the fully searchable electronic version of this indispensible reference book. The paper version is on Ready Reference.

World Factbook    A collection of country profiles compiled by the Central Intelligence Agency.  Includes maps and a formatted profile of the geography, demographics, vital statistics, economic indicators, etc., but no histories of each country.

Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations From Gale Thomson Corp., this online encyclopedia has essential facts about countries of the world.