National Governments
Comprehensive
Lists
- Adminet - World
- Meta index to information for over 200 countries
- Includes government, defense, sports, cities, health, industries,
environment, universities
- Arranged by country with separate indexes for subjects and
regions
- Although Adminet is French, the text for this segment is English
- Foreign
Information by Country (University of Colorado)
- Most extensive internet guide available to all countries of the
world
- Includes government agencies, country profiles, databases, country
profiles by governments and country profiles by international
organizations
- Supplemented by its Subject
Index to Foreign Governments
- Foreign
Governments (Intl.Docs.Task Force)
- Approximately 400 links to agencies in about 80 countries
- Focus on ministries, parliaments, and statistics
- Foreign
Governments via Yahoo
- Foreign government web sites
- Google Web Directory:
Regional
- Annotated guide to the best web sites by and about countries,
arranged alphabetically by country and/or region
- Coverage varies depending on country
- Includes some government web sites as well as business, society,
culture, entertainment, and news
- Governments on the
WWW
- Comprehensive listings of national, regional, and municipal
government sites as well political party information for most
Eastern and Western European Countries
- Includes language of site and name of government
agency translated into English
- Lengthy sections for African, American, Asian, and Oceanic
governments with national web sites and embassies
- Table in each section lists number of entries and when last
updated
- Independent States of the World (State Dept)
- List of independent countries
- Includes short and long form of name, capital, and official two-digit
abbreviation
- Symbols note diplomatic relations with the U.S. and United Nations
membership
- Keele Guides to Government
and Politics on the Internet
(University of Keele)
- Foreign government officials, constitutions, election results,
flags, anthems and web sites
- Links to political theory web
sites and the full text of
publications
- Nations of the
World
(Law Library of Congress)
- Separate web page for each country of the world links to
constitutions and laws available on the web
- Links to executive, legislative and judicial branch web sites
- General sources include area studies, human rights reports, refugee
reports, travel advisories
- Portals to the
World (Library of Congress)
- Extensive links to government agencies as well as helath, education,
history, language, religious and culture subjects for most countries in
the world
- The Media section includes major newspapers
- Search Engines
Worldwide
- List of over 850 internet search engines around the world
- Arranged by country and region
- Includes classified and keyword search engines
Regional
Lists
- Eurasia
Research Center
- Geographic coverage: Russia and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Middle
East, Central and South Asia
- Links to country home pages (some produced outside the country) and
news sources, including the Clarinet News
- Links to international and human rights organizations with interests
in the area
- United
Nations and Decolonization
- Eighty colonies have gained independence between 1945 and 1999
- Web site documents the United Nations efforts with history, original
sources, and a description of the Trusteeship Council
- Reports on the economic, social, and political status of the 17
remaining
colonies, including American Samoa, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands
- Maps of the world in 1945 and 1999
Ministry
Lists
- Archives
Portal (UNESCO)
- Directory of national, state, and local archives with web links
- Also includes subject lists, such as parliamentary, diplomatic or
family archives
- No annotations; project under development as of 2007
- Environmental
Ministers (UNEP)
- Pull-down list of countries provides and name, address, telephone,
email and web site of ministers of the environment in most countries
- International Chamber of Commerce
Directory
- Search chambers of commerce by city, province/state, or country
- Links to web sites and provides e-mail addresses
- International
Directory of Utility Regulatory Institutions
- World Bank directory of transportation, energy, and water/sewage
regulatory agencies
- Arranged by country and by sector (e.g. aviation)
- Each entry includes agency contact information and regulatory
responsibilities
- Accurate through 2000
- Military
Watch
- Links to armed forces web site around the world
- Military Watch is a lobby group
- Ministries of
Education (UNESCO)
- Arranged by region and country
- Address, phone, fax, e-mail and web site as available
- National
Health Related Web Sites
- National
Libraries (IFLA)
- Links to national libraries on the web, arranged by country
- Related list of all national libraries, addresses, and phone
numbers
- Parliaments
of the World (IPU)
- List of all countries with a parliamentary system
- Links to their web sites if available
- PARLINE
provides basic parliamentary and
electoral information (e.g. constituencies, voter qualifications) for all
countries as well as the latest election results (voter turnout;
statistics on elected officials by party, profession, sex, and age;
textual analysis
- Political Resources
on the Net (Italy)
- Hundreds of links to parties, movements, elections, political
organizations, government, and embassy web sites arranged by country
- Searchable by country or world region
- Web site has outstanding coverage and merits its high ratings
- Statistical
Agencies (Census Bureau)
- Links to web sites of national statistical agencies by country
Foreign
Embassies
- Diplomatic
List (U.S. State Department)
- Personnel and contact information for foreign embassies in the
United States
- Embassy
Pages (Escape Artist)
- Embassies worldwide, consulates, and United Nations missions for most
countries
- Escape Artist has also made links to meta sites, news, and
map sources for many of the countries included
- Foreign
Consular Offices in the United States
- Contact information for consular offices, arranged by foreign country and then U.S. location
- Foreign Embassies in
Washington, D.C.
- Foreign embassy addresses in Washington, D.C.
- Links to travel information abroad
- Foreign
Embassies Worldwide
- Links to foreign embassy web sites and gophers in the United States,
Canada, and other selected countries
- Includes web pages of U.S. embassies and USIA outposts abroad
- Permanent
Missions to the United Nations (UNDP)
- Links to web sites of UN missions from various countries
- United States
Representatives
Abroad
- Visaforu: Ultimate Visa
Information
- Visa information for each country in the world provides details of
various types of visas (travel, temporary worker, business, immigrant,
etc.), visa application forms and embassies of the the country around
the world
Local Governments
European Local Government Officers Data Base
- Web site primarily an advertisement for a commercial data base not available at the
University of Michigan
- Links to national and international organizations of local governments on the
web site free-of-charge
International Chamber of Commerce
Directory
- Search chambers of commerce by city, province/state, or country
- Links to web sites and provides e-mail addresses
Official City Web Sites
- Extensive list arranged by state
- Foreign cities arranged by region and country with some
annotations
Sister Cities
International
- List of sister cities by U.S. state and city and by foreign
government
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