61. REFERENCE SHELF: Maps, Atlases, Gazetteers http//uk8.multimap.com/map/places.cgi. Starters Large collection of online world, region, country, city and historical maps....... Full http://libraries.ucsd.edu/refshelf/refshelf-mapsatlas.html

RefShelf A-Z E-mail Reference About RefShelf What's New ... REFERENCE SHELF Maps, Atlases, Gazetteers Reference Shelf Categories: Awards and Prizes Biography Cities, States and Countries Consumer and Recreational Information ... Job Opportunities Libraries: San Diego California U.S. and Worldwide Maps, Atlases and Gazetteers ... Columbia Gazetteer of North America A comprehensive encyclopedia of geographical places and features covering incorporated places and counties in the United States, several thousand unincorporated places, special sites and physical features, includes Canada Mexico and the Carribean. [Full Description] http://www.bartleby.com/69/ Columbia Gazetteer of the World [UCSD Only] A database of names, descriptions, and characteristics of over 165,000 places in the world, including the United States and North America. [Full Description] http://www.columbiagazetteer.org/ Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online The TGN is a structured vocabulary containing more than one million names and other information about places. The TGN includes all continents and nations of the modern political world, as well as historical places. It includes physical features and admini [Full Description] URL too long to display Home Town Locator Gazetteer Location information for 1.8 million physical and cultural features in the United States and territories, with links to maps and aerial photos and and 2000 U.S. Census information.

62. World And Regional Rankings world and Regional Rankings. Coldest places in the world. Driest places in the world. Dangerous Countries to Live in. National Holidays. world Map. world Time Zones. http://www.aneki.com/lists.html

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63. CGRER NetSurfing: Maps And References maps and References. ( last updated ) NOTEI am in the process of pruning the dead links. This should be finished sometime in July. and Canada) places in the West (The West Film of the San http://www.cgrer.uiowa.edu/servers/servers_references.html

Maps and References (last updated: NOTE: I am in the process of pruning the dead links. This should be finished sometime in July. The following compilation of Internet/WWW sites is intended to be an introductory guide to some of the map and reference resources available via the World Wide Web. Consider using one of the WWW search engines if you are looking for a specific type of map or reference. The maps which are listed here have been selected because they are thought to be reasonably useful and/or interesting. They are categorized by geographical region although there are a couple of thematic categories such as Interactive Maps which both highlights the potential of the WWW and are also fun to use. Note that there is some overlap in geographic coverage between these categories. The emphasis is on displayable maps (e.g. images) rather than digital cartographic (GIS) and satellite data which can be found in the separate compilation Geodata Information Sources . There is also another listing which includes Weather Maps and Imagery Topics Map Sources and Information United States - National United States - State United States - City ... Other References This list has been compiled for use by faculty members and students of the Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research . Suggested additions and corrections to this list are welcome and can be sent to the CGRER webmaster Note: These various Internet links may not be accessible at all times.

64. MapMachine--online Dynamic Atlas, Street Maps (National Geographic) MapMachine Home. National Geographic s redesigned online atlas gives you the world—your way. Find a Place (city, country, region, continent, US zip codes). http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/

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65. Map Of Regions Of The United States You can place Kansas as a Midwestern state and just as easily are no boundaries on this map because these regions are of Additional maps of the United States. http://geography.about.com/library/misc/blregions.htm

zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') About Homework Help Geography Home ... Free Geography Email Newsletter zau(256,152,145,'gob','http://z.about.com/5/ad/go.htm?gs='+gs,''); Careers in Geography Country Information Cultural Geography Find Maps ... Help zau(256,138,125,'el','http://z.about.com/0/ip/417/0.htm','');w(xb+xb); Stay Current Subscribe to the About Geography newsletter. Search Geography Regions of the United States I'm frequently asked about which region a state lies within, for instance, "Is Kansas a Midwestern state or a Central state?" Unfortunately, the U.S.A. is composed of many "regions" and there is no official designation for each state. You can place Kansas as a Midwestern state and just as easily call it a Central state, just as you could call Oregon a Pacific state and a Northwestern state (although the term Pacific Northwest is frequently also used.) Below is a map that provides an indication of the diveristy of regional terms used in the United States. This map provides just a small sample of the terms used. There are no boundaries on this map because these regions are of course relative and represent different things to different people. Additional Maps of the United States Subscribe to the Geography Newsletter Name Email From Matt Rosenberg Your Guide to Geography FREE Newsletter.

66. Virtual New Zealand - World Map BOOKMARK PAGE. world View. Click on New Zealand in the Map to zoom in. Overture, Search the Web. Type it and go! http://www.vnz.co.nz/maps/

Search this Site Features and Favourites Live NZ radio View Webcams News Headlines Weather Conditions Maori Culture NZ Shopping Photo Stock Library Whats New About our Site Site Map BOOKMARK PAGE World View Click on New Zealand in the Map to zoom in. Search the Web. Type it and go! SHIFT DOWN E MAIL Categories: Start Photo Tour Postcards Regions ... Links Services: Contact Shopping Photo Stock More Places: Australia Americas New Zealand Hot Product Travel Guide Powered by Red Hat Linux New Zealand is considered to be the most isolated country in the world in a geographical sense. New Zealand is on the opposite side of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) which makes New Zealand the first country in the world to see each new day. This means the country is 12 hours ahead of England, and 24 hours ahead of some of the nearby Pacific Islands due to the International Date being nearby. If you were able to travel from New Zealand through the centre of the earth, and continued to the otherside, you would find yourself in and area between North Africa and Southern England. Click on New Zealand in the map to zoom in, or choose a link to your left.

67. NOTE The Pentagon S New Map War And Peace In The Twenty-First More specifically, the world s hot spots and the likelihood of war in each of those places. United States is redrawing the map of the region, we are http://www.nwc.navy.mil/newrulesets/ThePentagonsNewMap.htm

The Thomas P.M. Barnett Web Files at the U.S. Naval War College THE PENTAGON’S NEW MAP IT EXPLAINS WHY WE’RE GOING TO WAR, AND WHY WE’LL KEEP GOING TO WAR. BY THOMAS P.M. BARNETT, U.S. NAVAL WAR COLLEGE [MAPS BY WILLIAM MCNULTY] Read the May letters to the editor Read the June letters to the editor NOTE: The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century is published by G.P. Putnam's Sons on 26 April 2004 (448 pages) Esquire , March 2003 issue Since the end of the cold war, the United States has been trying to come up with an operating theory of the world and a military strategy to accompany it. Now there’s a leading contender. It involves identifying the problem parts of the world and aggressively shrinking them. Since September 11, 2001, the author, a professor of warfare analysis, has been advising the Office of the Secretary of Defense and giving this briefing continually at the Pentagon and in the intelligence community. Now he gives it to you. L ET ME TELL YOU why military engagement with Saddam Hussein’s regime in Baghdad is not only necessary and inevitable, but good.

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71. CIA - The World Factbook -- China Accession to the world Trade Organization helps 55 earth stations is in place international satellite Pacific and Indian Ocean regions); several international http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ch.html

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72. Taking A Trip Through The Regions have students discuss the changes that have taken place in these regions. Their matrix should show characteristics of the regions. Extend this to the world. . http://www.hawaii.edu/hga/ASGI00/TripThroughRegions.html

HGA Taking a Trip Through the Regions Lani Hayashi Grade Level: 4 March 2001 (rev.) PURPOSE: When you talk about the "vast open ranges," where are you talking about? When you see a cactus growing in Louisiana, does a puzzled look come upon your face? When you share pictures of red brick structures with a friend, do they have a clue as to where you were on vacation? With all of the advances being made in this world, we can bring ourselves closer to places we never even dreamed of. But do we really know where these places are? Is the mention of "New York," just a word or is it a place in your mind that you can see? Before taking a trip, people research an area or place to know what to pack or to know where they may want to visit. The purpose is for students to have a visual image in their minds about different places and to have enough knowledge about these places or regions to build their experiences. So many times, students research on places or know about places or heard about places that they have never seen and I would like the students to understand where people are talking about, on a mental map and through physical features or man-made features. FOCUS QUESTIONS: What are the physical and man-made features of a region?

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74. The World Gazetteer: Related Links world Flag Database, national and regional flags, yes, world Flying Flags, animated and regular national Astrodienst, provides geocoordinates of places, yes, private http://www.world-gazetteer.com/links.htm

Related sponsored link by Google: The World Gazetteer current population figures for cities, towns and places of all countries Statistical Resources on the World Wide Web This is a list of links related to population, statistics, vexicology (flags) and maps. Country related links can be accessed by clicking on the relative country and then on the link symbol at the bottom population resources Web Site Description English Publisher City Population cities, administrative divisions and interactive maps for numerous countries yes Thomas Brinkhoff Demographic Pages cities and administrative divisions of some countries some Dmitrij Lagodin Global Statistics important places of most countries yes Johan van der Heyden Population Statistics population data for cities and administrative divisions of some countries yes Jan Lahmeyer SIL: ethnologues population data for ethnic groups and languages of all countries yes organization Statoids administrative divisions of some countries (basic data for all countries are available in a book , which also contains 2nd-level admin. divisions for many countries; the website shows the changes since the book was released)

75. The World Gazetteer The world Gazetteer current population figures for cities, towns and places of all countries. can have a look in the files that list the places per region. http://www.world-gazetteer.com/news.htm

Related sponsored link by Google: The World Gazetteer current population figures for cities, towns and places of all countries Chronology of Last Changes (for older changes see the news archive Added Cyrillic names for places and regions of Macedonia and Added Arabic names for places and regions of the following countries: Afghanistan Algeria Bahrain Djibouti ... United Arab Emirates and Yemen The representation of the Arabic characters has been changed so that the Arabic place names should be readable on all common browsers (tested with Internet Explorer 6, Mozilla, Opera 7). If you use one of these browsers and the site is not displayed properly (test: ), you either need to switch on Arabic support in your browser or just install a font that includes Arabic characters. In this context the Latin representation of some names have been adapted, mainly added diacritical accents. The change of Arabic character representation also effects Jordan and Tunisia , whose Arabic place names had already been available. Added census 2001 data for places in Bahrain . Note that since census 2001 the administrative divisions have changed, however neither population nor area data are available yet.

76. Geography Home Page doubts about who is in charge of its vast Arctic region by sending look at my thirtyfive articles about interesting geographic places around the world. http://geography.miningco.com/

zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') About Homework Help Geography Home ... Free Geography Email Newsletter zau(256,152,145,'gob','http://z.about.com/5/ad/go.htm?gs='+gs,''); Careers in Geography Country Information Cultural Geography Find Maps ... Help zau(256,138,125,'el','http://z.about.com/0/ip/417/0.htm','');w(xb+xb); Stay Current Subscribe to the About Geography newsletter. Search Geography From Matt Rosenberg Your Guide to Geography FREE Newsletter. Sign up now! Reagan Geography Quiz This week's new five-question, multiple-choice Geography Quiz focuses on the geography of President Ronald Reagan Wednesday June 09, 2004 Summer Solstice Early This Year This year the summer solstice is a bit earlier than usual. Summer in the northern hemisphere begins on June 20 at 8:57 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time! Learn all about the June solstice in the fantastic article here on my site. Wednesday June 09, 2004 Monsoon Season June begins monsoon season in Southern Asia and India. Monsoon season brings heavy rains to the subcontinent. Wednesday June 09, 2004

77. SunClock From Worldtimezone.com - Shows Earth Day / Night Regions And Standard T Earth showing the day and night regions at this Dependencies and Areas of Special Sovereignty in the world. am, for any information regarding the place,time any http://www.worldtimezone.com/datetime.htm

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78. Visited Countries i thought i d been to loads of places, but only about 5 We don t need to map out every region of every/any what s around us as well as what s in the world beyond http://douweosinga.com/projects/visitedcountries

Home Blog Projects Google Hacks ... About Visited Countries Visited Countries is a small project demonstrating the power of manipulating the palette of a gif image on the fly. Here we start with a map of the world with each country in a different color. The script asks which country you have been to and sets the colors of those countries to red, the rest to green. new: by popular demand I created Visited States , which does exactly the same, except for that it shows a map with the states of the US you've been to in red. You can copy the image and put it on your homepage or on your blog if you think that's cool. It is like an affiliate program, where I get paid by the Google ads. Or you can check out where your fellow travellers have been If you crawl through the comments below, you see a lot of discussion of which states are included and which are not. My basic rule is that a nation has to be internationally recognized, i.e. by the UN. This has the unfortunate effect that Tahiti and French Guyana become part of France and the map looks silly if you click France and see something in South America. Here I have taken the practical approach to only seperate countries and dependent territories if the dependent territories are big enough to really show up on the map, i.e. Greenland and French Guyana. new: If you like this

79. GaWC Research Bulletin 30 of the new space of hierarchy and region has combined THE MEANING OF THE NEW MAPPING OF THE world. of flows argument, the results reintroduce spaces of places. http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/rb/rb30.html

G lobalization a nd W orld C ities Study Group and Network This Research Bulletin has been published in The Geographical Journal Please refer to the published version when quoting the paper. (Z) A New Mapping of the World for the New Millennium P.J. Taylor, M. Hoyler, D.R.F. Walker and M.J. Szegner Abstract A new mapping of the world derived from connections between cities is presented as a complement to the traditional world map of countries. Under conditions of contemporary globalization world cities have emerged as global service centres. These have been created by the location strategies of leading corporate service firms (e.g. in accountancy) in setting up their global office networks. Data on the offices of 46 global service firms in 55 world cities are used to define service connections between cities. Connections are converted into measures of network proximity and a multidimensional scaling is applied to these ‘distances’ to create a ‘global service space’ of cities. This new mapping of the world shows a distinctive centric structure with the major world cities (e.g. London) at the core. Investigation of this general structure reveals more subtle patterns of interacting regional and hierarchical tendencies. Keywords: World map, world cities, globalization, advanced producer services, multidimensional scaling

80. Geography 2253: World Regional Geography such events are taking place, or understand Map Quizzes (25%) Ten map quizzes are world Diversity Amid Globalization world regions, Environment, Development http://www.geog.okstate.edu/users/comer/geog2253/wrg2253.htm

Geography 2253: World Regional Geography Time offered: Summer Session 1, M-F, 8:40-11:40 A.M. Class Resources: Course Description: The primary objective of this course is to familiarize you with the diversity of people and places in the world. In addition, you will learn the locations of some basic places and features so that you will have a better understanding of world events and how they are interrelated. As a holistic discipline, geography is concerned with the distributions of all sorts of phenomena, both human and physical, and with the interactions between and among those phenomena. The most significant phenomena that this course studies is the culture region, which is defined in almost as many ways as there are geographers. Virtually all the definitions, however, center upon the differences in how people live and interact with one another in place, and how these different styles of living impact the landscape. While such knowledge of the world is important in and of itself, it also has a more practical use. As telecommunications advances have accelerated this century, our planet is becoming more connected and interrelated than ever before. In the near future, knowing the customs of Chinese society, for example, could be an important job skill that you might need when your company sends you to manage its new office in Beijing. Similarly, another devastating earthquake in Japan could affect your life in numerous ways, including your job, the interest rate you get for a loan, or the next technological improvement for your home computer. Understanding these linkages and anticipating their outcomes will make you a more competitive member of the global workforce and community.

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