CIA’s World Factbook

This resource allows users to search by country, map, or reference to learn more about the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for over 200 world entities.

Overview

One of the most popular U.S. Government websites, the extensive database has a variety of resources on international data. Entries are consistently updated with interesting current events. With global information, maps, cultural issues, and more, this library of high quality articles is likely to have a reference that would benefit any course.

How to Use this Resource

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Professors will find the engaging articles useful to supplement material or become the foundation for an assignment. This would be a good opportunity for a course to include student choice where students pick a recent article of interest and relate it to the curriculum or write an essay regarding their findings.

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