Country Profiles and Data
- The Economist’s Country Profiles
- Reports include recent news articles, country profiles, forecasts, fact sheets, and economic data.
- Index Mundi
- Data gathered from a variety of sources. Includes information and data by country, region, industry sector, and more. Topics such as geography, demographics, and economy are also broken out and contain country-by-country summaries.
- UN Data
- Country and regional profiles provide data and statistics.
- World Bank Data
- Free and open access to development data from countries around the globe. You can browse by country or you can search using keywords or country names.
Cultures of the World
- Commisceo Global Country Culture Guides
- Cultural information for over 80 countries. Scroll down to “Choose a Country” and use the dropdown menu.
- Wikipedia Index: Culture by Country
- This index helps you find Wikipedia entries about many countries’ cultures.
- World Culture Encyclopedia
- Cultural summaries by country and region.
Cultures of the World
These English-language news sites provide access to news from a non-US perspective.
- Agence France-Presse (AFP)
- International news agency headquartered in Paris, France.
- Agência Brasil
- National public news agency run by the Brazilian government.
- Al Jazeera
- Independent news organization funded in part by the Qatari government.
- BBC World News
- British public news agency with international coverage.
- Kyodo News
- International news agency headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
- Reuters World News
- International news agency based in Toronto, Canada.
Multinational Corporations
- List of Multinational Corporations
- Looking for examples of global corporations? This Wikipedia list provides quite a few.