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About Alabama
from the Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
Alabama
Recreation and Travel
Tour Alabama
U.S. Corp of Engineers, Mobile District, Tuscaloosa Site Office
Geographic & Demographic Information
United States
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States.com
About Counties - National Association
of Counties
Best
Places.net- profiles and comparisons of cities around the country,
including school statistics, crime rates, climate, etc. Excellent.
Bureau
of Labor Statistics - 2000 Metropolitan Area Occupational Employment
and Wage Estimates by metropolitan area in each state. See especially the
topic links.
Census
Bureau American FactFinder
Census Bureau Gazateer
Census Bureau Quickfacts
Census Scope - "
an easy-to-use tool for investigating U.S.
demographic trends, brought to you by the Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN) at the University of Michigan."
City Data - pictures, maps, satellite
photos, stats about residents (race, income, ancestries, education, employment...),
geographical data, crime data, weather, hospitals, schools, libraries,
airports, radio and TV stations, zip codes, area codes, similar cities
list, comparisons to averages... .
Digital Neighbors
Discover Our Town
- "The Ultimate Travel and Shopping Guide," provides reliable information
about interesting places to visit and shop throughout the United States.
Obviously paid advertisement, but some useful information and links.
e Podunk.com - an interesting site
with a lot of different sorts of information on communities around the
U.S.
Fedstats.gov - The gateway to statistics
from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies.
Geographic
Names Information System (GNIS) - information about almost 2 million
physical and cultural geographic features in the United States, as well
as
links to other similar resources.
Free Lookups
from MelissaData. Includes ZIP codes, ZIP distance, city names, phone
numbers, street names, place names, demographics, income tax statistics,
SIC codes, and more.
Historical Census Data
Browser Data describing the people and the economy of the U.S.
for each state and county from 1790 to 1960.
Info USA - from the
U.S. Department of State
Keys to the City information
about cities across the country "enhanced by information sent to us by
the citizens of those communities."
Kid
Friendly Cities
Kids Count census data on
children and families
Mapstats - Statistical
profiles of States, counties, Congressional Districts, and Federal judicial
districts.
National Atlas.gov
State
Information from the LibrarySpot
Stately
Knowledge
Yahoo
Verticals (Real Estate--Neighborhoods)
Window to My Environment - provides a wide range of information about environmental conditions and
features in areas around the country.
International
Altitudes
& Elevations - links from WorldAtlas.com
Background Notes -
"facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty" from the U.S. Department of State.
CIA
World Factbook
Confluence.org
- the Degree Confluence Project
Countries
and Regions - from the World Bank
Country
Briefings - "News, country profiles, forecasts, statistics and more,"
from The Economist.
Country Information
- from the IMF
Country
Studies, by the Library of Congress
Geographia
Geographical
Resources and Maps from the Michigan e-Library
E-Conflict
World Encyclopedia
Encyclopaedia
of the Orient
Flags
of the World - well, not exactly geography, but related.
Getty
Thesaurus of Geographical Names
How
Far Is It?
How
High Is It - Enter coordinates for a location and click the submit
button to see the elevation.
Internet
Resources for Physical Geography
Lonely Planet Worldguide
- travel information, of course, but also blurbs on history, culture, environment,
suggestions for further reading, and more.
Nation Master - "a vast
compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, United
Nations, World Health Organization, World Bank, World Resources Institute,
UNESCO, UNICEF and OECD."
National Geophysical Data Center,
includes links to World Data Centers
Nations Online
Population
Statistics for countries around the world- from the University of Utrecht.
Comprehensive!
Portals
to the World from the Library of Congress. Not exclusively geography
or demographics, but includes these among numerous other categories to
which it provides links.
UN
CyberSchoolBus
World Gazatteer
- current population figures for cities, towns and administrative divisions
of all countries and largest cities of the world.
Maps
Local Maps
Alabama Maps - from the
University of Alabama Department of Geography
Digital Sanborn Maps
eMaps Plus
Florida County Maps
National Atlas.gov - "
the single best Federal source for national maps and geographic information
on the Web."
Outline Maps from Eduplace
Tuscaloosa
DOT Map
Tuscaloosa
Map from Yahoo
General Map Resources
Atlapedia
Online
Castañeda Library Map
Collection
Color
Landform Atlas of the U.S.
DMOZ Maps
Geography
Dictionary and Thesaurus
Historic
Cities - "contains maps, literature, documents, books and other
relevant material concerning the past, present and future of historic
cities and facilitates the location of similar content on the web."
InfoPlease Atlas
Links
to Maps from the Salmons.org
Maps from e-History--an
extraordinary collection of maps covering all periods of world history
Maps
from Hyperhistory--another exceptional collection
MapQuest
Map
Links from National Geographic
Multimap.com
- takes you down almost to street level for most of the world.
National Atlas--interactive
geological and topo maps!
National Geophysical
Data Center--includes topo maps of the states.
Rand
McNally.com
TerraServer
United
Nations Cartographic Section
University of Alabama
Contemporary Map Index
WorldAtlas.com
World
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