CIA World Factbook
The World Factbook is prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency.
Provides current information on countries including: location, map, flag,
climate, geography, resources, environment, people, government, economy,
transportation, communication and defense
Library of Congress / Country
Studies / Area Handbook Series
A continuing series of books prepared by the Federal Research Division
of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program
sponsored by the Department of the Army. This online series presently
contains studies of 91 countries
How Far Is It?
This service uses data from the US Census and a supplementary list of
cities around the world to find the latitude and longitude of two places,
and then calculates the distance between them (as the crow flies)
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