The BBC Country Profiles provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions...

A guide to sources about doing business in another country which includes country background information, cultural issues, business etiquette, global industry sources, trade regulations, investment climate, taxation, and more...

"A compilation of current information on cultural, geographic, and political conditions in 193 countries and their cities covering six continents, based on the Department of State's Post Reports...

News and research reports on various countries of the world, from more than a dozen individual sources...

This site covers more than 100 countries with full-text information from the most recent volumes of the Country Studies/Area Studies series from the Library of Congress...

Provides "country specific geopolitical intelligence on each of the 192 countries of the world...

Culture Briefings give you current, in-depth information found in no other single source on the customs, culture, traditions and ways of life of people in other countries...

Full-text reports on several dozen countries that provide country profiles (Country Profile section), economic and political trend analysis (Country Reports section), financial information (Country Finance section), and commercial information (Country Commerce section)...

Online version of the Europa World Year Book and the nine related regional volumes...

"Executive Planet provides valuable tips on business etiquette, customs and protocol for doing business worldwide...

Country facts and cultural information on the countries of the world...

Includes summaries of the history, statistics, government, communications, and culture of each nation of the world...

"Presents easy-to-understand information on 200 countries and dependencies from around the world...

Comprehensive directory about Asia...

Provides concise informative profiles for over 260 geographic entities (mostly countries)...

Provides links to constitutions, charters, amendments, and other related documents for nations of the world...

"Presents the cultural similarities within a country that set it apart from others by examining over 200 countries to document the myriad ways in which culture defines and separates the nations of the world as much as geographical borders do...

Provides narrative and statistical information from current and past editions of the CIA's World Factbook, the Library of Congress's Country Studies, and United Nations publications...

Contains nearly 200 entries on foreign countries which cover the geography, history, government, and political conditions, economy and state relations with the United States...

Covers 60 countries and includes articles from The Economist, background profiles, forecasts and statistics, market and currency updates, news, headlines, and links...

An excellent resource for cultural information for more than 180 countries; reports include maps, statistics, and in-depth information in a number of specific categories, including geography, history, language, and customs...

Contains more than 14,000 entries which give "the meaning and origin of place names in the British Isles, tracing their development from earliest times to the present day...

More than 29,000 pages about flags, including more than 55,000 images of flags, arranged by country (including clickable maps)...

A collection of links to Web sites for approximately 245 countries/territories...

Includes links to Freedom House's Center for Religious Freedom and their in depth and continuing coverage of threats to civil rights and liberties around the world...

"Provides entries on the physical geography of every country in the world plus other selected locations...

A "site with geopolitical data, statistics on the human population, Earth and more...

A unified portal to the Library of Congress's digital international collections and resources...

Groups international business resources under broad categories, but also allows for searching by keyword...

An International website featuring up to date world Internet Usage, Population Statistics and Internet Market Research Data, for over 233 individual countries and world regions...