Country Information and Statistics
Facts and Statistics
Britannica World Data
Facts and statistics by country from Encyclopaedia Briannica. Includes facility for building your own data comparison tables.
Economist Country
Briefings
Political and economic data plus recent news articles from each country.
World
Factbook
Information gathered by the CIA
Area
Studies
This is a well organized collection of web sites arranged by country.
From Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources Page.
OFFSTATS
Official Statistics on the Web; free and easily accessible
statistics from official sources. From LEARN, University of Auckland
Library.
Flags
Flags
of All Countries
Pictures of flags from most of the world's countries.
Alphabetical listing.