National Governments on the Web

NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS
ON THE WEB

National Governments
Classified Search Engines | Comprehensive Listings | Embassies
Individual Agencies | Keyword Search Engines | Translations

National Government Listings

Adminet - World

<http://www.adminet.com//world/>

Meta index to information for over 200 countries. Includes government, defense, sports, cities, health, industries, environment, and universities. Arranged by country with separate indexes for subjects and regions.

Governments on the World Wide Web (Gunnar Anzinger)

<http://www.gksoft.com/govt/>

Comprehensive listings of national, regional, and municipal government sites as well political party information for most countries world wide. Includes language of site and name of government agency translated into English. Table in each section lists number of entries and when last updated.

Keele Guides to Government and Politics on the Internet (University of Keele)

<http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/por/>

National government officials, constitutions, election results, flags, anthems and web sites. Links to political theory web sites and the full text of publications.

National Governments - Classified Search Engines

Google Web Directory

<http://directory.google.com/>

Selected annotated guide to the best web pages on the Internet. National governments are found under the Regional heading on the main page.

Yahoo

<http://www.yahoo.com/>

Oldest and most comprehensive directory on the Internet but relies on submissions rather than review. U.S. Government appears under Government. National governments around the world appears under Regional.

National Governments - Keyword Search Engines

AltaVista World

<http://world.altavista.com>

Keyword searches in Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian, Russian, and Swedish.

Search Engines Worldwide

<http://www.twics.com/~takakuwa/search/search.html>

List of over 850 internet search engines around the world, arranged by country

Translations

Babelfish

<http://babelfish.altavista.com>

Translates URL for five KB of text both ways between English and French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. As of April 2000, there is a two-way translation. Also provides a limited Russian/English translation.

Promt

<http://www.translate.ru/>

Translates Russian language web sites and their immediate links into English. Reverse process to translate English language web sites into Russian. Includes two-way translations between Russian and French, German, Italian. It may be necessary to load the web page translator a few times before the language box completely appears.

National Governments - Individual Agencies

Armed Forces of the World (Canadian Forces College)

<http://wps.cfc.dnd.ca/links/milorg/index.html>

Extensive links to military web sites arranged by country. Also includes excerpts from the U.S. Army Area Handbook series and native laws governing the military.

Central Banks of the World

<http://adams.patriot.net/~bernkopf/>

Links to national banks arranged by country. Most central bank web sites provide monetary and economic statistics.

Foreign Affairs Departments (Canadian Forces College)

<http://wps.cfc.dnd.ca/links/intrel/for.html>

Quick unannotated links to foreign affairs departments of several countries.

National Health-Related Web Sites (World Health Organization)

<http://www-nt.who.int/whosis/statistics/national_sites/national_sites.cfm?path=statistics,national_sites&language=english>

Links to health and general statistical web sites, arranged by country.

National Libraries (IFLA)

<http://www.ifla.org/II/natlibs.htm>

Links to national libraries on the web, arranged by country. Related list of all national libraries, addresses, and phone numbers.

Parliaments of the World (International Parliamentary Union)

<http://www.ipu.org/english/parlweb.htm>

List of all countries with a parliamentary system and links to their web sites. Parline <http://www.ipu.org/english/parline/parline.htm> 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.

Statistical Agencies (Census Bureau)

<http://www.census.gov/main/www/stat_int.html>

Alpabetical list of national statistical agencies, arranged by name of country.

Embassies

Embassy Pages (Escape Artist)

<http://www.escapeartist.com/embassy1/embassy1.htm>

Embassies worldwide, consulates, and United Nations missions for most countries. Searchable by a combination of the country the embassy represents and the country in which it is located.

Permanent Missions to the United Nations (UNDP)

<http://www.undp.org/missions/index.html>

Links to web sites of UN missions based in New York. Most missions provide test of selected General Assembly speeches and some foreign policy information.

National Governments - Individual Subjects

Comprehensive

Information on Foreign Countries and Governments (University of Colorado)

<http://www-libraries.colorado.edu/ps/gov/for/foreign.htm>

Subject index to international governmental and nongovernmental web sites providing information about national governments.

Crime

United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute

<http://www.unicri.it/>

Bibliographic data base of crime around the world. Directory of criminological resources in 70 countries. Publications is basically a directory of print material but includes selected digital publications with statistical data, such as criminal vict imization by type of crime in developing countries.

Culture

Ethnologue

<http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/>

Comprehensive directory to 6500 world languages. Arranged by language and lists speakers per country. Country data provides number of speakers per language, percentages of religious groups, number of blind persons, and number of deaf institutions.

Demographics

City Population

<http://www.citypopulation.de/>

Population data for numerous cities of the world in a variety of formats. Choose country and then locate cities by province or name. Includes population of province; population data for the city from the last two censuses. You can also locate a cit y using maps. Some maps permit zooming for population density.

International Population Data Base (U.S. Census Bureau)

<http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/ipc/www/idbnew.html>

Summary vital statistics data for all countries, 1996 and 2000 as well as mid-year estimates, 1950-2020. Additional data on marital status, ethnic origin, religion, literacy, labor force, income and poverty. Data may be downloaded directly or viewed via a spreadsheet.

Economics

Poverty Net (World Bank)

<http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/data/index.htm>

Numerous studies and reports on poverty. Links to wealth as measured by the Gini coefficient. World Bank Social Indicators <http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/dg/p overtys.nsf/ DownloadSID?openform> provides 32 poverty measures downloadable in Excel format for individual countries.

Tradeport Country Library

<http://www.tradeport.org/ts/countries/>

General political and economic information for individual countries. Searchable data base of Market Research Reports, which analyze country sales opportunities. Industrial sector analysis reports, trade barrier and regulation reports, and foreign la bor trends.

World Development Report (World Bank)

<http://www.worldbank.org/wdr/>

Full text of annual report addressing international economic issues. Appendix of statistical tables provides country data with trends. Subjects include poverty, income distribution, population, Gross Domestic Product, foreign trade, finance, environme nt, education, and health. Classifies countries into developing, most developed, etc. Adobe Acrobat format with tables and chapters segmented for easy viewing.

Education

UNESCO Statistics

<http://unescostat.unesco.org/>

Educational enrollment and attainment data for individual countries for the past 15 years. Time series data for individual countries on adult illiteracy, school funding, and the media

Energy

International Energy Information (U.S. Department of Energy)

<http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/international/contents.html>

Detailed country studies on energy production, imports, exports, use, reserves, and prices.

Environment

InfoNation (United Nations)

<http://www.cyberschoolbus.un.org/infonation/info.asp>

Current statistics on 185 countries. Thirty-seven variables include: population, life expectancy, fertility, school enrollment, illiteracy, homicides, and motor vehicles. Carbon dioxide emissions, threatened species, and energy consumption are among the environmental data. Separate section entitled Twenty-One Cities of the World focuses on population and environment.

World Resources, 1998/99 (World Resources Institute)

<http://www.wri.org/wri/wr-98-99/>

Numerous statistical tables in Adobe Acrobat format with country data. Population: projections to 2025, birth, death, health, education. Economic: gross national and domestic product, prices, development assistance. Environment: forestry, fisheries, water, weather.

Health

World Health Organization

<http://www.who.int/whosis/>

Catalog of WHO data bases on morbidity, mortality, epidemiology. Mortality data by cause and sex for region but not by country as of April 2000. Text of World Health Report. Sections on AIDS, malaria, and health personnel.

Human Rights

Amnesty International

<http://www.amnesty.org/index.html>

Annual country reports on human rights practices.Multiple investigations for individual countries

Country Reports on Human Rights Practices

<http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/>

United States State Department annual report on human rights violations in individual countries beginning 1993.

For the Record (Canada Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

<http://www.hri.ca/fortherecord2001/>

Summary of human rights reports given by individual countries to the United Nations. Includes thematic reports as well as progress on or reservations about international treaties.

Laws

Global Legal Information Network

<http://lcweb2.loc.gov/law/GLINv1/GLIN.html>

Guest users can search English summaries of laws from around the world since January 1976. A minimum search requires use of the Thesaurus and a country designation (e.g. Argentina and Criminal law). Search may be refined by citing the legal instrument or date

Maps

Map Related Web Sites (University of Texas)

<http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/map_sites/map_sites.html>

Extensive links to political, topographic, nautical, weather and thematic maps from around the world.

Military

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Yearbook

<http://editors.sipri.se/pubs/yearb.html>

Lengthy annual summaries of international military affairs, conflicts, and disarmament. Includes statistics and signatories to major treaties. Printed version is more complete.

News Media

Ultimate News Links

<http://pppp.net/links/news/>

Links to over 10,000 newspapers worldwide. Arranged by continent and country; for the United States, subdivided by state.

Politics

Parliamentary Elections Around the World (Wilfred Dirksen)

<http://www.electionworld.org/>

Schedule of Parliamentary elections by date. Election results and statistics by name of country.

Political Resources on the Net(Italy)

<http://www.agora.stm.it/politic/>

Hundreds of links to parties, movements, elections, political organizations, government, and embassy web sites arranged by country. Searchable by country or world region.

Zarate's Political Collections

<http://www.terra.es/personal2/monolith/00index.htm>

Lists rulers of individual countries, 1945 to the present. Arranged by country with the name, office, dates of term, regime (civilian/military), or party membership. Related data bases include contemporary women leaders, African rulers, and heads of state dying under suspicious circumstances.

Statistics

InfoNation (United Nations)

<http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation/e_infonation.htm>

Statistical Data Locators (Nanyang Technological University)

<http://www.ntu.edu.sg/library/stat/statdata.htm>

Annotated guide to country and international data sites worldwide. Extensive in subject and national coverage. Arranged by continent and country.

Treaties

Multilateral Treaties (Fletcher School)

<http://fletcher.tufts.edu/multilaterals.html>

Historical and current international conventions on arms control, environment, and trade. Approach by topic or date with keyword index. The United Nations Treaty Database <http://untreaty.un.org/> lists signatories but requires a paid subscription.

Grace York, Coordinator,
University of Michigan Library
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/gid/rusintl.html
graceyor@umich.edu
May 15, 2000
Revised on May 27, 2000
Revised on June 11, 2001
Revised on March 15, 2002

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