Ready Reference Desk
World Information
Provides country profiles, including news, statistics, etc.
Provides links to country reports, including government, customs and cultures, national symbols, photos, etc.
Provides information on researching countries all over the world. It also has slide show captions.
Provides festivals and events, covering the United States and the world. It has a searchable map, to find events. Users can also browse by subject.
Provides links to flags of the world by country, organization, keywords, title, etc.
Foreign Government Resources on the Web
Provides links to foreign government information on the web, including country profiles, etc.
It provides historical foreign currency exchange rates. Users are able to select countries by name and historical dates.
This is the Census Bureaus links to international statistics of countries of the world. It provides an alphabetical list.
Provides information on international weather.
Provides a list of countries and their codes.
Provides links to newspapers, both in the United States and around the world.
Provides links to electronic resources around the world. It also includes an A-Z index to all the links.
User are able to find out the time, anywhere in the world.
This site provides currency by country name. It also provides current conversion/foreign exchange rates.
US Embassies, Consulates, and Diplomatic Missions
Provides links to US embassies, etc of several countries of the world.
This site provides short biographical entries of prominent individuals in North and South America, Western and Central Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania. Users of this site could search by name, gender, time period, occupation, or country, etc.
Provides world clock, including time zones.
Provides the CIA world fact book. Published by the CIA. It offers facts about all the nations of the world. Includes climate, natural resources, environmental issues, economics, population, government, industry, exchange rates, communications, armed forces, etc.
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
This site provides the United Nations' intellectual property information. It covers information on rewarding creativity, innovation, etc. It also covers economic development and other public interest information.
Provides maps of the world. Users are able to select the destination map by country, states, province, etc.
Provides links to newspapers from most countries and territories of the world.
This site provides scanned copies of bank notes of various countries of the world.
Provides world's nations and leaders, including flags, maps, and national anthems