Home: Reference Desk: Geography

Altapedia Online – Full color physical and political maps, key facts and statistics worldwide
American Fact Finder – A database of year 2000 United States census data. Try “Start with the Basic Facts” first!
Census Bureau Geography
CIA Factbook – Summary information on almost every country in the world
City Pages Links – Several US cites and some international destinations
Commonwealth Nations – Don’t let the 1994 Games caption fool you: this site has good summaries of scores of small countries
Conflict World Encyclopedia
Country Studies(US Library Of Congress) – A GREAT resource
Earthmaps
Encyclopedia of the Orient – Hundreds of topics covering over 20 countries
Environmental Atlas – A tool for researching environmental policy world-wide
Fundamentals of Physical Geography – An Online Textbook (College Freshman Level)
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names – Brief information about almost anywhere worldwide
Geography Site - Limited good information about physical geography
Geography World
Geosource Webdirectory - Human geography, physical geography, planning, geoscience and environmental science
GEOnet Nameserver - Provides access to the National Imagery and Mapping Agency's (NIMA) database of foreign geographic feature names. Contains 3.84 million features with 5.28 million names
Global Statistics
Links2Go: Geography
Medical Geography Links
NASA Multimedia Gallery – For geography that’s out of this world!
National Atlas of the United States
National Geographic
Physical Geography Links  (University of Leicester)
Portals To The World  (Library of Congress)
Resources For Geographers  (Colorado University)
State & County QuickFacts  (US Census Bureau)
Statistical Abstract of the US
Traveleye
World Gazetteer
WWW Virtual Library: Geography
50States.com – State Facts Summaries, important local-by-state links. EXCELLENT resource