Countries

• Find useful web sites on countries at the Gateway to the Internet
• At Encyclopaedia Britannica online you can search for countries by name to find long articles, maps, illustrations, video clips, magazine articles  and links to reviewed web sites

Alternatively, use the 'World atlas' feature to find country maps and related articles

See 'World data analyst' for masses of country statistics. You can view and compare country data from across the world

• Browse and search books on countries at Reference books online

At Oxford Reference Online you can read the 'Oxford guide to countries of the world' or check flag images and details in 'World flags'

Credo Reference's 'Geography' section includes books such as the 'Penguin encyclopedia of places', the 'CIA world factbook' and 'Cassell's peoples, nations and cultures

Further books on countries are available in Gale Virtual Reference Library, for example in the 'Nation and world' section

• Marketline Business Information Centre includes profiles on 50 countries giving key country facts, economic summary, political summary, economic analysis, political analysis and macro-economic, demographic and social indicators
• At Newspapers online there are articles from eight daily and Sunday newspapers, from July 1985 onwards; for historical information there is also the 'Times digital archive' covering 1785-1985
• Magazines and journals online include 'New internationalist' and 'National geographic'
• Find books on countries in the library catalogue
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Find the  facts in a book

Key books on countries

See also

Maps and atlases