Geography: Recommended Resources

Provides access to authoritative information on more than 170,000 places and areas around the world. Entries cover: demography, physical geography and political boundaries; industry, trade, and agriculture; cultural, historical, and archaeological points of interest; transportation lines, longitude, latitude, and elevations; official government place-names and changed or variant names and spellings.

A comprehensive set offering entries on 1500 of the world's peoples and cultures, from the earliest times to the present.

The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.

Search over 60 million records for specific information, by country and year.

This maps collection has over 21,000 maps and images online. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia and Africa are also represented.

Historic and contemporary maps of all regions of the world provided by the University of Texas Libraries.