GIS and Geography

The search engines for the BGN provide both domestic and foreign names of places, including not only populated places but also physical and cultural geographic features.

TGN is a structured vocabulary currently containing around 1,106,000 names and other information about places. Names for a place may include names in the vernacular language, English, other languages, historical names, and names in natural & inverted orde

The Encyclopedia of Earth is a new electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society. The Encyclopedia is a free, fully searchable collection of articles written by scholars, professionals, educators, and experts who collaborate and review each other's work.

Headwaters Economics is an independent, nonprofit research group that works to improve community development and land management decisions. We inform community decision-making and identify practical solutions by making complex data understandable, beautiful, and interactive, helping develop solutions to some of the most urgent and important issues that communities face.

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U.S. government profiles of countries and territories around the world. Information on history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues.

In-depth information about everything from geography to weather, from government to religion. Prepared by the Federal Research Division.

Includes overviews of geography, people, government, economy, history, and political developments.

Guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions.