World-Wide Web Resources
Geography

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  • About.com's Geography site, includes annotated links to sites for maps and geographical information, an online world atlas, weekly articles about geography.

  • American Demographics Magazine

  • America's Roof, guide to the highest places in the U.S. and the world.

  • Atlapedia, country profiles providing facts and data on geography, climate, people, religion, language, history and economy.

  • Alphabetical Guide to Country Information

  • Asian Studies WWW Monitor, from the WWW Virtual Library.

  • Atlapedia Online, A-Z encyclopedia of the countries of the World. Each country's listing consists of geographic and demographic data, a modern history, and information about the people, climate, currency, and economy.

  • California Geographical Survey, contains an electronic map library, census data archive, and mapping resources library.

  • Canada

  • Census Watch, ESRI site with access to information on Census-related data resources, redistricting, online GIS mapping, education and training, as well as news and articles.

  • Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), provides information useful for the study of global change, sustainable development, and human interactions in the environment.

  • Center for Political and Strategic Studies

  • Country Studies/Area Handbooks, from the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress. Series of online books offering analysis of the political, economic, social, and cultural systems of various countries.

  • Country Web Sites (excluding the U.S.)

  • County and City Data Books for 1988 and 1994. From the University of Virginia Social Science Data Center. Searchable, it contains demographic, economic, and governmental variables from both federal government and private agency sources, presented for the purpose of multi-area comparisons or single area profiles. Users can choose areas and variables, and there is an option under county and city data to pick all the counties or cities of a particular state. Output can be sorted in three ways, and can be displayed to the browser or saved in an ftp file as either browser output, or comma delimited output for later importing into statistical applications.

  • Cyber Geography Research

  • Demographers' Resources on the Internet, designed as a supplement to Thomas Gryn's 'Internet Resources for Demographers' paper (Version III).

  • Demographic Profile Generator Basic Tables, allows users to generate a single 1990 demographic profile report by census tract, block group, city, ZIP code, state, county or metro area for anywhere in the United States.

  • Demographic Research, peer-reviewed online journal of the population sciences published by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany. Available in both HTML and .pdf formats.

  • Demographics Journal

  • Demography Resources, from Princeton University.

  • Educational Resources for Cartography, Geography, and Related Disciplines, from the U.S. Geological Survey. For K-12.

  • Electronic Atlas, from the Association of Research Libraries. The ARL Electronic Atlas Project is a collaborative effort of participants in the Association of Research Libraries GIS Literacy Project. Maps in this Electronic Atlas have been created using ArcView software from Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.(ESRI), boundary map files from Wessex, Inc., and statistical data from the U.S. Bureau of the Census.

  • European Geography Test, a collection of exams that survey knowledge of European topography, map skills and urban geography.

  • Federal Geographic Data Committee, with links to federal, state and local spatial data sources.

  • Fodor's Travel Online

  • Geographers Craft Project, Univ. of Texas at Austin's online initiative to improve the teaching of geographic techniques.

  • Geographic Learning Site, from the U.S. State Dept. -- functions as an instructional resource for teaching world geography and international affairs to K-12 students.

  • Geographic Name Server, via MIT.

  • Geographic Names Information System

  • Geographical Information Systems Sites and Information (GIS)

  • Geography Resources, from the Mining Company.

  • GEOnet Names Server, provides access to the Defense Mapping Agency's index of foreign geographic names.

  • George Mason University, Department of Geography. Cartography resources, faculty and class info, and virtual field trip to Bosnia.

  • Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

  • GIS by ESRI, geographic information systems from Environmental Systems Research Institute.

  • Global Population Distribution Database

  • Heritage Map Museum, original 15th to 19th century maps. Works of Schedel, Munster, Ortelius, Mercator, Blaeu, & Hondius.

  • How Far Is It?, uses the University of Michigan Geographic Name Server to find the latitude and longitude of two places, and then calculates the distance between them (as the crow flies). It also provides a map showing the two places, using the Xerox PARC Map Server.

  • Independent States in the World, State Department listing of current country names.

  • IPUMS, from the University of Minnesota. Provides on-line access to the public-access population database. Composed of national samples of thirteen U.S. censuses from 1850 through 1990. Quantitative source for the study of long-run social and economic change

  • John R. Borchert Map Library, at the University of Minnesota.

  • Jumpstation Geo, a directory of web sites about geography.

  • Kentucky Atlas & Gazetteer

  • Kentucky Office of Geographic Information Systems

  • Kentucky Place Names

  • Kentucky's Geography Network, geography and mapping resources for the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

  • Latitude: The Art and Science of Fifteenth-Century Navigation. Examines and explains the art, history, and science behind latitude, longitude, maps, compass roses, traditional sailing, celestial and coastal navigation.

  • MABLE/GEOCORR Geographic Correspondence Engine, allowing you to access the MABLE geographic data base and to generate custom "correlation lists" as reports and/or files.

  • Map Maker, free GIS for Windows.

  • Map-Related Web Sites, from The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, The University of Texas at Austin.

  • Maps, from University of California, San Diego.

  • Maps Resources

  • National Geographic Society

  • National Imagery and Mapping Agency [NIMA]

  • National States Geographic Information Council

  • New Internationalist, development education journal which includes selected full-text articles on the issues of inequality and world poverty.

  • Official City Sites, an international resource.

  • Park Search, hosted by L.L. Bean. Indexes over 900 national and regional parks and forests, which can be browsed and searched by name, state, activities, or services.

  • Past Place, Newsletter of the Historical Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers.

  • PopNet, from the Population Reference Bureau. Directory of population information resources available on the Web.

  • Population Information Network (POPIN), from the United Nations.

  • Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990--US Census Bureau Working Paper 27.

  • Population Reference Bureau, a nonprofit educational organization. Aims "to increase the amount, accuracy, and usefulness of information about population trends and their implications."

  • The Ryhiner Project

  • Social Science & Government Data Library, from UC Berkeley.

  • TIGER Mapping Service

  • Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, international quarterly journal of geographical research

  • UNAVCO, University NAVSTAR Consortium. Supporting use of the Global Positioning System (GPS) for high-accuracy geosciences research.

  • United States, guide to state information.

  • United States Population Profile, 1997 (in .pdf format). A Current Population Report Special Study by the Census Bureau.

  • The University of South Carolina Department of Geography, with links to Remote Sensing, GIS data and software suppliers.

  • Virtual Tourist

  • The World Bank

  • World Population Figures

  • World Wide List of Map Libraries

  • Xerox PARC Map Viewer

  • Geography Department, University of Kentucky.
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    This page was last updated 12 April 2004. To suggest additions or corrections to this list, send mail to Faith Harders at Faith.Harders@uky.edu.

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