Web site Links for Maps and Countries: contemporary and historical

Web sites for Maps and Countries: contemporary and historical

The following lists provide Web links to a variety of Web sites providing information on contemporary and historical maps available online, and about countries in the world today. Just click onto the appropriate heading to access the Web site you want.

Atlapedia Online: Atlapedia Online contains full color physical and political maps, as well as key facts and statistics, on all countries of the world. The **Countries A to Z** section provides facts, figures and statistical data on geography, climate, people, religion, language, history, economy, and more for each individual country. The **World Maps** section provides full color physical and political maps for all regions of the world.

Duke University Public Documents and Maps: This site contains many sources for Federal, State and International public documents, for contemporary and historical maps, and for computer mapping programs. The Map Collection contains over 125,000 paper maps with local, state, national, and international coverage, including topographic maps, topical maps, navigation charts, road and street maps, page-sized reference maps, and selected early 20th century maps. We're a depository for both U.S. and Canadian government maps. Our computer resources include the desktop mapping programs MapInfo and ArcView as well as some spatial data to use with them. Additional spatial data may be found in the Public Documents and Maps Department's federal depository collection. The collection also offers map reference programs such as electronic atlases.

4Maps Online: A site containing contemporary and historical maps. The sections of relevance are the "World Atlas" and "Historical Maps". The section on World Atlas contains items on:
- broadening your horizons
- Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection
- National Atlas of the United States
- National Geographic Map Machine
- World Atlas
- Clip Art Maps
- Earth View
- U.S. Gazetteer
The section on Historical Maps contains items on:
- Travel back in time
- The Map Case
- Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century
- Historical Maps of the United States
- Boundaries of the United States
- Panoramic Maps (1847-1909)
- Rare Maps (1600-1870)
- Cartographic Images

Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century: This site contains maps that illustrate changing trends in a variety of categories, including Living Conditions, Government, War, and Religion. There are essays on the Turn of the Century and the Dawning of the Millennium. The detailed information given includes "Specific Places and Events" and the sources and Web links from which the information came.

Online Maps from the University of Texas Library: A multitude of high quality maps are located at this site. Most compiled in recent years are courtesy of the Central Intelligence Agency. That's right: the CIA! So reap the benefit of modern intelligence gathering if you need up-to-date maps on the Balkans, south-east Asia and other world trouble spots, as well as less-volatile parts of the world.

Historical Online Maps from the University of Texas Library: This site is a subset of the one above and focuses specifically on historical maps. As you explore this site, you'll find that many of the maps shown are from the original time period or close to it.