Resources:

• Atlapedia contains full color physical and political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world.
  http://www.atlapedia.com/index.html
  
  
• California Wild a magazine about California's extraordinary biological and geographical diversity
  http://www.calacademy.org/calwild/archives/index.html
  
  
• CIA World Fact Book provides in-depth descriptions of countries worldwide.
  http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/">
  
  
• Geographica features essays on a number of countries.
  http://www.geographia.com/">
  
  
• Map-It: Form-based Map Generator takes longitude/latitude pairs as input and creates a Mercator projection map with land/sea and political boundaries.
  http://crusty.er.usgs.gov/mapit/
  
  
• Map Machine from National Geographic
  http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/
  
  
• Operation Webfoot is an idea to help stimulate young minds in the area of geography, history and science
  http://www.fi.edu/fellows/myers/opwebfoot/
  
  
• Panoramic Maps Collection
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pmhtml/panhome.html
  
  
• Ptolemy's Geography from the Library of Congress Vatican Exhibit
  http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Experimental/vatican.exhibit/ exhibit/d-mathematics/Ptolemy_geo.html
  
  
• Sailing thru Science hosted by the Global Online Adventure Learning Site
  http://www.goals.com/ClassRm/SailSci/SailSciF.htm
  
  
• United Nations CyberSchoolBus has demographic statistics, country profiles, flags, and photographs.
  http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/res.html
  
  
• University of Georgia Rare Map Collection has maps from the New World era, Colonial America, Revolutionary America, Civil War and more.
  http://www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/maps.html
  
  
• WorldSkip.com helps you explore any country around the world
  http://www.worldskip.com/
  
  

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