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Internet Public Library (IPL) Regional and Country Information
The IPL organizes sites by continent, then by country. The are also general sites.

CIA Publications
The CIA publications site includes valuable full-text data. For example the: CIA World Factbook Yearly gives a succinct narrative of a country's current political economy; and the Handbook of International Economic Statistics

Constitution Finder
The University of Richmond provides this alphabetical listing of constitutions for countries. Also consider Foreign and International Law from Willamette University .

Human Rights Reports
"The protection of fundamental human rights was a foundation stone in the establishment of the United States over 200 years agos." For past reports go to: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices.

Country Studies
You remember the Army Area Handbook for...; then the names changes to ...a Country Study. Now these are on the Internet full text for some 100 countries.

The Electronic Embassy
The "core" of The Electronic Embassy is "information on all the foreign embassies of Washington, DC." Other parts of the site include an "International Business Center," a "Help & Resource Center," a "Virtual Library," and a "Virtual Gallery."

Foreign Government Resources on the Web
From the University of Michigan, this comprehensive site is organized by region and by type of information (statistics, Embassies, News, etc.).

Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources
A British site with world-wide coverage; high quality!.

The US State Department: Direct State Department links of interest are:
Countries and Regions
Background Notes (of Countries)
Country Commercial Guides
Country Reports on Economic Policies and Trade Partners
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices

TaxUp
“TaxUp has been founded by international tax experts because they experienced a lot of difficulties to find the tax information they were looking for when surfing the Internet.” Select a region, a country, or a topic.

Yahoo! "Countries"
This choice will bring a list of countries by name. It immediately apparent that this tool is more useful for the countries that are less a part of the "information highway." You will probably use Yahoo! then for the manageable amount of Internet links it provides for countries such as Cambodia, Ethiopia, or Paraguay than for the thousands it provides for China or Australia.

History: Areas and Cultures

Africa
Asia
Australia
Canada
Europe
History
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Middle East
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