Countries Around the World


Lonely Planet:  Destinations
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/

NASA Website
http://www.nasa.gov/

Peace Corps:  Countries
http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/students/index.html

Populations Reference Bureau
http://www.prb.org

U.S. Department of State:  Country Background Notes
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/

United Nations:  Statistics Divisions
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/inter-natlinks/sd_natstat.htm

World Bank Group
http://www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/regions.htm

World Factbook
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

 

Minnesota

North Star Search - search all Minnesota government websites
http://search.state.mn.us/

Authorís Biography Project    biographies, selected works and links for 36 past and present Minnesota authors.
http://people.mnhs.org/authors/index.cfm

Minnesota Communities explore primary resources from the Societyís collections
http://www.mnhs.org/school/classroom/communities/

Minnesota Place Names an online geographical encyclopedia
http://mnplaces.mnhs.org/

Minnesota Territory - Primary source material such as written records, photographs, art works, and artifacts.
http://www.mnhs.org/places/historycenter/exhibits/territory/

Timepieces Snapshots of Minnesota history online
http://www.mnhs.org/school/online/index.html

Visual Resources Database more than 174,000 searchable and printable historical images from Minnesota.
http://Collections.mnhs.org/visualresources/-

United States


Central Intelligence Agency
http://www.cia.gov/

Fifty States.com
http://50states.com/

FirstGov -government information
http://www.firstgov.gov/

U.S. Department of State for Youth
http://future.state.gov/ 

U.S. Department of State Home Page
http://www.state.gov/