Geography: Selected Websites

Basic background information, data, flags and maps.

Full profiles provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions. They also include audio and video clips from BBC archives.

World Bank Open Data: free and open access to data about development in countries around the globe.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is a federal agency focused on the conditions of the oceans and the atmosphere.

U.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets - Country Profiles

The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.

Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.

The U.S. data in PRB's DataFinder are from the U.S. Census Bureau's decennial census, American Community Survey, and population estimates.

Contains information about physical and cultural geographic features in the United States and associated areas, both current and historical (not including roads and highways).

County-Level Health Workforce and Population Health Database