Geography sites

• Atlapedia Online - Full-color physical and political maps as well as key facts and statistics on many countries.
• Electronic Embassy - From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, you'll find links to information from every country's embassy here, along with a help and resource center, virtual library and multimedia gallery.
• The Library of Congress Country Studies - This website contains on-line versions of books previously published in hard copy by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress. Because the original intent of the Series' sponsor was to focus primarily on lesser-known areas of the world, the series is not all-inclusive; at present, 101 countries and regions are covered.
• Nationmaster - This useful site includes statistics, maps and country profiles. Printable handouts, including citations, are also available. It includes topographical maps for countries outside the United States, plus a very helpful feature which allows interactive generation of charts and maps. 
• Portals to the World - is a Library of Congress site that 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. The development of this website is in progress, and when completed, it will include all the nations of the world.
• Social studies outline maps - These maps from Houghton Mifflin may be printed and copied for personal and classroom use.
• States and Capitals is a links resource for everything you ever wanted to know about the 50 states as well as the commonwealths and territories.
• The World Factbook - Information on countries of the world compiled by the CIA.