LACS Foreign Country Sites
Many statistics, the history and links to flags, maps,
holidays, and many other required items.
http://www.infoplease.com/countries.html
Background Notes online – mostly history and economics, with some
other statistics
http://www.state.gov/www/background_notes/index.html
United Nations statistics
http://www.unicef.org/statis/atoz.html#I
Links to great sites on countries
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listcountryms3.html
Lots of information on countries
www.countryreports.org/
CIA World Fact Book -- great
site with
lots of information, flags, economy (imports, exports.) http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
The Library of Congress Country Studies site; lots of information and
you can search it for specifics
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
Exchange Rates websites -
convert US
dollars into the currency of your country or vice versa.
http://www.xe.net/ucc/
Embassy sites- give addresses and additional country info.
http://www.embassy.org/embassies/
http://www.embassyworld.com/embassy/directory.htm