CLC_WWW_Resources

^{^{Ensor Learning Resource Center Georgetown
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All The Worlds Maps: A Compilation of Each Nation's Maps - Including Cities Find current, historical, political, physical, and elevation maps, country facts, places of interest, local times, visas, transportation information, currency converters, political and economic overviews, and environmental trends for the world's nations.

BBC News Country Profiles Provides general country information (including audio and video clips from the BBC archives), timelines, and links to news and press agencies, television and radio.

Business Culture Guides Provides business culture guides for selected countries. Information includes business dress, topics of conversation, making appointments, entertaining and gift giving.

Country Briefings From Economist.com, provides news articles, economic and political information including forecasts, and basic country information for sixty countries.

Country Commercial Guides: Fiscal Year 2001 (2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996) Released by the U.S. Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, provides 50-150 page .PDF country guides prepared by U.S. embassies. Chapters include Economic Trends and Outlook, Business Travel-- Business Customs, Business Infrastructure, Marketing U.S. Products and Services, Political Environment, and Investment Climate.

Freedom in the World 2003: Country and Related Territory Reports Provides overviews and timelines of political rights and civil liberties of nations.

The Glossarist A comprehensive searchable directory of glossaries and topical dictionaries that includes foreign language resources. Need a Japanese food or Spanish wines dictionary? German or French football terms? A Spanish to French banking glossary? This one has it all.

Grammars and Language Courses From YourDictionary.com, provides grammars and language courses for 100 languages. Also includes newspapers, radio stations, dictionaries, and fonts.

Independent States in the World U.S. State Department site that lists short and long form country names, capitals, whether or not country has diplomatic relations with the U.S. and whether or not country is a member of the United Nations. Links to Dependencies and Areas of Special Sovereignty.

InfoNation Allows statistical data comparisons for up to seven nations including Area, Capital City, Largest City, Population, Languages, Average Temperatures, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Forest Area, Urban Growth Rate, Precipitation, Energy Consumption, Threatened Species, Currency, GDP, Major Export Industries, Unemployment, Tourist arrivals, Parliamentary Seats (Women/Men), Spending on Education, School Enrolment, Homicides, Motor Vehicles, Telephones, Newspaper Circulation, Television Receivers, and Refugees.

International Addresses and Salutations Includes postal addresses, address elements and salutations. (When the page loads, scroll UP.)

International Business Etiquette and Manners Covers appearance, behavior and communication.

Languages by Country Lists official and spoken languages by country and links to Ethnicity and Race by Countries.

Portals to the World Selective links from the Library of Congress provide “authoritative in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world. They are arranged by country or area with the links for each sorted into a wide range of broad categories.” Links include Business, Economy (agriculture, banking, industry, investment, trade, chambers of commerce, directories of companies, economic statistics, business journals), Geography and Environment, Language and Literature, Organizations, Religion and Philosophy, Commerce, Education, Government, Media and Communications, Politics, Science and Technology, Culture (includes performing and visual arts, film, music, museums, theater, folklore), History, National Security, Recreation and Travel, and Society (anthropology, demography, sociology, ethnic groups, women and gender studies, diasporas)

Pronunciation Guide from Voice of America A pronunciation guide of the names of world figures and organizations including audio files to hear the correct pronunciations.

radio-locator Links to 10,000 radio stations and is searchable by country.

WorldLingo Translator
Machine translates sentences and Web pages between English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Chinese, Russian, and Italian.

World News Network Provides stories from worldwide news sources and searchable by country and region, city, date, and language. Many sources are available in English.