Foreign Governments - Official Resources
These pages link to the official web sites of foreign governments. In some cases, this means both the official site for the government as a whole, and individual sites for separate agencies, ministries, or offices within the government.
General Resources
- Foreign Governments (from the Northwestern University library)
- Government and Information Links (from the Center for the Study of Democracy at UC-Irvine)
- Guide to Law Online (from the Law Library of Congress; see especially their country resources)
- International Governments (from West Virginia University; links to a variety of government web sites from about 40 countries and several major international organizations)
- OneWorld - Nations Online
- Parliaments on the Web (from the Inter-Parliamentary Union)
- World Governments (from adminet.com)
- Web Sites of National Parliaments (from the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy, at Washington University - St. Louis)
- Yahoo Directory: Government: Countries
Political Resources
- Lists of online embassies and consulates: EmbassyWorld and Yahoo)
- Permanent Missions to the UN
- Embassies to the U.S. are listed on Embassy.org and Project Visa
- U.S. embassies, consulates,and diplomatic missions abroad (from the U.S. State Department)
Socioeconomic Resources
- International Statistical Agencies (links compiled by the US Census Bureau)
Foreign Governments - Unofficial Resources
These pages offer information about a variety of foreign governments, but are not associated with the governments themselves. See also my International Political Data, International Social Data, and International Economic Data pages for more relevant information.
General Resources
- Background Notes (notes about the history and politics of each country, from the U.S. Department of State)
- CIA World Factbook (one of the leading comprehensive sources for political, demographic, and other data on each country. Dozens of other sites use the CIA World Factbook data, sometimes pretending that they collected it themselves, but this is the original site.)
- Country Briefings (from the Economist Intelligence Unit)
- Country Studies/Area Handbooks (from the Research Division of the U.S. Library of Congress)
- Ethnologue (detailed information on the languages spoken in each country of the world, including a linguistic map showing the location of each group)
- Flags of the World (an informal site run by volunteers who have collected nearly 10,000 pages of information and nearly 20,000 images of world flags. For many countries this includes flags of provinces, states, or other entities, as well as detailed discussion of the specific colors and design elements of each flag. Other, less detailed world flag collections are available from the CIA and the World Flag Database (Flags.net))
- Infoplease World Almanac
- National Anthems of the World are available from TheNationalAnthems.com and National-Anthems.org
Political Resources
- World Leaders (from the CIA)
- Copies of national constitutions -- with amendments or revisions over time -- are available from Constitution FInder (at the University of Richmond's Law School), Constitution.org, the Law Library of Congress' Guide to Law Online, Richard Kimber's site at Keele (UK) and International Constitutional Law (from the University of Bern, Switzerland)
- Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (an effort to expand National Elections Studies-type research to more than fifty countries)
- Political Database of the Americas (from Georgetown University)
- Rulers.org (information on each country's history, but more important, its rulers -- including each one's birth and death years as well as the specific dates of entering and leaving office)
- Zarate's Political Collections (from Roberto Ortiz de Zarate in Spain; a variety of compilations related to world leaders, such as world political leaders since 1945, world leader biographies (in Spanish), and many more)
Socioeconomic Resources
- Human Development Reports (from the UN)
- International Data Base (from the U.S. Census Bureau; demographic and socio-economic data on each country)
- OFFSTATS: Official Statistics on the Web (from the library at the University of Auckland, NZ)
- Social Indicators and Millennium Indicators (from the UN Statistics Division)
- World Development Reports (from the World Bank)
Comprehensive Link Collections
The following resources have many more links than I could ever want to add to this page, categorized by the type of resource. If you could not find what you wanted in this page, these resources are likely to have additional material that you might find helpful:
- Foreign Government Resources on the Web (from the University of Michigan library)
- Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources (from Keele University, UK)
- Poly-Cy: Internet Resources for Political Science (from Bob Duval at West Virginia University)
- WWW-VL: International Affairs (part of the WWW Virtual Library)
- Yahoo: Directory: Regional: Countries
Quasi-States and Other Non-State Actors
See also my International Social Data and Demographic Topics pages.
- Center for World Indigenous Studies
- Dependencies and Areas of Special Sovereignty (from the U.S. Department of State)
- Freedom in the Territories and (possible) New Countries (from Maximiliano Herrera)
- Fourth World Documentation Project
- League of Micronations
- League of Secessionist States (LOSS)
- The Micronations Page
- Nation Planet (Nationalism resources from Paul Treanor)
- Sovereignty Projects and Governments-in-Exile
- Territories, Colonies, and Dependencies (from the Infoplease Almanac)
- Institute of the Rights of Peoples (formerly the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization)
Country, Region, and Area Studies
Note that U.S. government and politics -- while some consider it a country/area study -- is covered elsewhere on this web site, most notably on my U.S. Government and Politics page. This page also does not include news wires or other primarily news-oriented materials, because those are already available on my world news pages.
Africa
- Africa Research Central
- African Studies Center (at the University of Pennsylvania)
- African Studies Internet Resources (from Columbia University; the WWW Virtual Library for African Studies)
- Index on Africa (from the Norwegian Council on Africa)
Asia
- Asian Studies Network Information Center (ASNIC) (from the University of Texas)
- Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library (from Australian National University)
- EurasiaNet.org
- South Asian and Southeast Asian resources (from the Duke University library)
Europe
- Russian and East European Network Information Center (REENIC) (at the University of Texas)
- Sources on the Balkan Peninsula (from the Hellenic Resources Net)
- Institute on East-Central Europe (at Columbia University)
Latin America
- Handbook of Latin American Studies (from the U.S. Library of Congress)
- Latin American Development Archive (from Johns Hopkins University)
- Political Database of the Americas (from Georgetown University)
- Latin World - Latin America on the Net
- Mundo 21: BYU HRC Latin Countries Page
- Caribbean Studies Resources (from the Africana library at Cornell)
Middle East
- Middle East North Africa Internet Resource Guide (from the University of Utah)
- Middle East Resources (from the Rhodes library)
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