HIT Countries of the World

["Gail's school mail" <gaborio@ESPER.COM>]

HIT: Countries of the World. Thank you all very much!!

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The CIA World Factbook at
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/

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Try these websites:
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
http://www.countryreports.org/
http://www.countrywatch.com/@school/
http://www.geographia.com/
http://www.infoplease.com

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Background Notes from the CIA are wonderful.
bottom link in my signature.  Select History and then countries.
Can also surf around the other ones I have there.

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Perhaps some of these will work for you.=20
http://memory.loc.gov/frd/cs/=20
http://worldfacts.us/=20
http://countrystudies.us/

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Here's the CIA Factbook which has info on most countries:

http://cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

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The CIA World Fact book has a very easy to use Country search.  This is
the address: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/      Please
post a hit.  I have a lot of site for US states and info but have not
found many for countries.=20

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I'm sending you the URL for a section of my library site.  I've created =
a
list of extensive links for researching countries on the web.  I =
especially
like the one called "Worldwide Governments on the Web" because it has =
many
official sites of countries, regions, provinces, cities, as well as =
travel
guide type links, such as Lonely Planet.  Go to:
http://www.marisths.org/academics_library_geography.htm
(there's an underline between academics & library and between library =
and
geography)

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Go to CIA.ORG and click on world fact book. This should help.

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If you have access to SIRS Discoverer, It's in a middle school friendly =
format. There are usually two articles that my students use for country =
studies - the country facts and the culture facts, they answer all the =
questions. If they need to find food related info, I have them go to =
google.com and type in the country name and the word cuisine. For most =
countries they will get info on how food is prepared and what the main =
diet is plus they'll get tons of recipes for that country. The CIA site =
is great, too, just too much info for middle school!

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Try this website. Very similar to countrywatch but done by the CIA.
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/

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Gail Borio

CAK HS Lbrary

gaborio@esper.com

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