Countries & Cultures: Countries & Cultures Websites

Contains Amnesty's "research and campaigning across the world, with all the latest news, blogs, and reports." (As stated on the Amnesty International's website.)

"Full profiles provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions." (As stated on the BBC website)

Exchange Rates, publications, and news from central banks from all over the world. (As stated on the Bank for International Settlements website.)

"The World Factbook, produced for US policymakers and coordinated throughout the US Intelligence Community, presents the basic realities about the world in which we live...The World Factbook is one of the US Government’s most popular Web sites." (As stated on the CIA website.)

"A comprehensive analysis of the world's constitutions, to support constitutional design and to inform citizens." (As stated on the Comparative Constitute Project, University of Texas at Austin and University of Chicago website.)

US Department of State provides current information on close to 200 different countries.

Contains facts, news, features and country profiles.

Provides country profiles focusing on crops and food stability.

"The IMF works to achieve sustainable growth and prosperity for all of its 190 member countries." (As stated on the IMF website.) Contains wide array of economic data, reports and news, as well as an economic outlook of each of it's 190 countries.

LOC Countries of Studies series available in picture and downloadable PDF format.

Customize maps from around the world.

US State department provides up to date information on the relationships with 200 other countries.

"Human development summary capturing achievements in the HDI and complementary metrics that estimate gender gaps, inequality, planetary pressures and poverty." (As stated on the UN website.)

The PCL Map Collection includes more than 250,000 maps.

Economic data by country presented primarily in graphs.