Lafayette College Library

U.S. State Department country profiles.

Up-to-date profiles of countries of the world. Includes political histories, economic statistics, and directory-style information on politics, media, and business. A "comparative statistics" section can be used to generate tables of comparative data on countries in formats suitable for exporting into Excel or SPSS.

Overviews of the geography, population, government, and economics of the countries of the world. From Oxford Reference Online.

Lengthy reports on the history, society, and culture of individual countries published between 1988 and 1998. (Additional volumes in this series are available in Skillman's print collection.) Prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress.

Country-level, time series data on development from the World Bank. Topics covered include demographics, the economy, and the environment. Data may be saved as Excel or ASCII files.

Data on the geography, demography, government, economics, etc. for every country in the world (courtesy of the CIA).

Political, physical, and locator maps for countries of the world. From Oxford Reference Online.

A wide variety of digitized maps from the Library of Congress.

About.com's collection of printable outline maps of states, countries, continents, regions, etc. Includes links to collections on other Websites.

Detailed statistical information on the European Union and EU member states.

Full text of annual reports (2002 to present) detailing political and civil rights in countries and territories of the world. Includes "ratings of freedom" for each country from 1973 to present. Also includes reports and rankings on freedom of the press in various countries.

Over 2000 scanned maps from the University of Texas at Austin.

Collections of historical maps, including collections covering North and South America, Africa, and Japan.