Foreign Government Web Resources

GENERAL COUNTRY INFORMATION

GOVERNMENTS

CONSTITUTIONS/LAWS/TREATIES

STATISTICS

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• Country at a Glance (United Nations Cyberschoolbus)
  Coverage includes "flag, latitude & longitude, total area, total population, population density, capital city, languages, largest city (and its population),currency, UN membership date,GDP, and GDP per capita".

• U.S. Dept. of State Background Notes on Countries of the World
  "Provides information on geographic entities and international organizations and are updated periodically."

• The Library of Congress Country Studies
  Contains studies of over 90 countries.

• The World Factbook
  Also provides reference maps.

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• Foreign Governments Webites. Via University of Michigan Library.

• Inter-Parliamentary Union
  "Your site on parlimentary democracy"

• Web Sites of National Parliaments (Washington University in St. Louis)

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• Constitutions of the Countries of the World. Use restricted. Also in paper in Data, Map and Government Information Services, 5th floor, Robarts Library; paper set includes superceded material (in storage).

• FindLaw's Constitutions of the World

• Constitution Finder

• International Law and Government By Countries of the World Alphabetically

• Multilaterals Project (The Fletcher School, Tufts University)
  The site makes available the texts of international multilateral conventions and other instruments.

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• University of Toronto Data Library: Finding U.S. and International Statistics

• International Statistical Agencies

• InfoNation (United Nations Cyberschoolbus)
  "An easy-to-use, two-step database that allows you to view and compare the most up-to-date statistical data for the Member States of the United Nations".

• International Data Base (IDB)
  "A computerized data bank containing statistical tables of demographic, and socio-economic data for 227 countries and areas of the world".

• World Bank Data & Statistics

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