Internet Picks: Geography & Maps:

U.S. States & World Countries


50 States.com

Pick a state and find out basic geographic, social, demographic, and statisical information. Plus, you will find information on the state's nickname, flower, song, and more.

Atlapedia

For a quick look at country information and easy to find maps, visit this site. It is packed full with plenty of facts.

Background Notes

The U.S. Department of State has compiled a detailed listing of continents, world countries, maps, and descriptions of each country's people, economy, geography and more.

CIA World Factbook

Take a look at this site to learn about facts from any country in the world, and view maps of countries and continents. This is a great source to look at flags of countries too.

Color Landform Atlas of the United States

Select a state and view a relief, satellite or county map of it.

Education Place

This is a great site for kids (grades K-8) looking for states and their capitals, countries and continents in outline format. These maps are prime printing materials, especially for homework and reports.

Geographic.org

Students working on homework assignments should visit this site. There is plenty of information here for teachers, parents and students to learn about geography.

Library of Congress Country Studies

The Country Studies Series presents a description and analysis of the historical, social economic, geographic and other aspects of countries throughout the world.

Multimap.com

This is another source for international maps. Select a country and zoom in.

Netstate.com

This site is a must-see for detailed state information. Find a description and history for each U.S. State, plus much more.

Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection

The University of Texas at Austin has a complete collection of maps ranging from those in current events, world maps, historical, U.S. States, cities, parks and more. Take a look at this comprehensive site.


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Updated November 14, 2005