Where (and what) in the world?

• Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development, a source of information on economic, social, & governmental matters in many of the advanced democracies; see all their frequently requested data page
• country studies from the Library of Congress ("This Web site contains the online versions of books previously published (1988-98) in hard copy by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Army. Because the original intent of the series' sponsor was to focus primarily on lesser-known areas of the world or regions in which U.S. forces might be deployed, the series is not all-inclusive. At present, 101 countries and regions are covered. The date of information for each country appears on the title page of each country and at the end of each section of text.)
• INCORE for international conflict research
  • the troubles in Northern Ireland
• UNWire
• the CIA's World Factbook
• Nationmaster, a largely free crossnational data set on the web
• StateMaster, data on US states
• annual cross-national assessments of the liberties of citizens and the press from Freedom House
• an assessment of economic freedom around the world