Central Intelligence Agency
Cia: World Factbook: Guide to Country Comparisons
Reference material for students and teachers provides a way to compare a wealth of country statistical data on a variety of topics.
Other
Nation Master: Country Profiles
Profiles of most of the countries in the world today. Each profile is full of facts, statistics, and rankings against other countries in many different categories.
Lin and Don Donn
Lin and Don Donn: Countries and Continents
This resource provides links to ideas and for teaching about the Arctic Circle and about the Antarctic. There are also links to additional sites.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Geography for Kids: African Countries and the Continent of Africa
Learn about the geography and the countries of Africa. Facts like flags, maps, exports, natural resources, people, and languages are on this website.
BBC
Bbc News: Country Profiles
Find full profiles of countries around the globe including history, politics, economic background, and more. Audio and video clips are also available.
Science Struck
Science Struck: A Complete List of Landlocked Countries in the World
Lists all the countries in the world that are landlocked. Gives area, population, capital, and bordering countries, as well as a map for each of the largest countries. This is followed by a list of other landlocked countries and their...
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Map of the 7 Continents of the World Game
A quick game where students drag and drop the name of each continent onto the correct location on an interactive world map.
Other
Nation Master: Country Groups
An interesting site that has sorted countries into groups based on such things as religion, economic factors, common colonial history, or location. They were then compared on the basis of different categories, such as agriculture, crime,...
National Geographic
National Geographic: More Human Geography and Borders
Lesson explores the ways in which human and cultural factors such as language and religion affect borders. Whole class and small group adaptable and interactive activities.
National Geographic
National Geographic: More Physical Geography and Borders
Lesson on the physical features that create borders and boundaries. Small group and whole class activities, background information, worksheets and assessment.
National Geographic
National Geographic: Languages and Religions of the United Kingdom and Ireland
Lesson in which young scholars explore how language and religion have affected borders in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Siteseen
Siteseen: American Historama: Outbreak and Causes of Ww1
This article provides 25 facts about the outbreak and causes of WW1 in the countries and continent of Europe and in the United States of America.
Nations Online Project
Nations Online
This portal site offers quick access to a wide range of information about each country, continent and region of the world.
World Geography Games
World Geography Games: Continents
A simple game where one must identify each continent on a world map as its name is presented.
Central Intelligence Agency
Cia: World Factbook: Regional and World Maps
Website from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) provides interactive reference material for regional and world maps in the World Factbook Library. Students and teachers can search for information about any country in the world.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Human Geography: Language and Religion
AP Human Geography course unit on Language and Religion compares world language, religion and looks at conflict within. Comprehensive resources, multi-media sources and interactive material.
Arcademics
Arcademics: Toad Hop
Toad Hop is a multiplayer geography game that allows students from anywhere in the world to race against each other while matching countries and capitals!
National Geographic
National Geographic: Places in the Park
Modeling the use of maps in and out of school can help students to recognize the value of maps and gain confidence with them. Using maps of places that are familiar to students will strengthen their spatial thinking skills before...
Read Works
Read Works: North America the Continent of North America
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the continent of North America and the countries it contains. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Made From Media
Made From History: 5 Small Countries With Crazy Histories
Read about five tiny countries who keep reinventing their histories as time goes on.
Science Struck
Science Struck: List of Country Abbreviations
Presents a list of the two-letter abbreviations for the many countries of the world.
World InfoZone
World Info Zone
Detailed, comprehensive information on countries and people all over the world. Great tool for discovering facts on world issues, seeing photos, and just exploring the world in general. Also includes quizzes based on the website's content.
Science Struck
Science Struck: What Are the 7 Continents
Provides short descriptions of the characteristics of each of the seven continents, along with maps.
Country Studies US
Country Studies: Online Version of a Book Published by the Library of Congress
This collection provides online versions of printed books from the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress. These material were created as part of the Country Studies/Area Handbook Series sponsored by the U.S. Department of...