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Country Comparisons & Rankings

Aneki.Com: Country Information, Regional and World Rankings
http://www.aneki.com/
Which country is the richest? Cleanest? Most expensive to live in? In addition to general information on countries, you can find social, economic, technological, environmental and academic rankings of many of the world's nations at this site.

NationMaster.com
http://www.nationmaster.com
Choose the countries you want to compare, then generate maps and graphs to illustrate their rankings in dozens of categories. Great for reports.



Country Profiles

The CIA World Factbook
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html
Profiles of countries of the world, prepared by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Includes maps.



Flags of the World

World Flags
http://www.flags.net/
National flags, as well as U.S. state flags.



Maps

Country maps are found in any of the encyclopedias listed above or the CIA country profiles (see above). Here are two more sites for maps.

Outline Maps
http://www.eduplace.com/ss/maps/index.html
Various types of outline maps.

Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/Map_collection.html
Enormous collection of online maps, including historical maps.




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