Americans in particular are somewhat geographically challenged, due in part to the fact that we maintain a strong sense of nationalism and often travel within the fifty United States. However, a knowledge of world geography is helpful for many reasons, and the following category allows you to learn just that. Links feature references for states, provinces, governorates, counties, districts, and other subdivisions of countries, as well as world geography, climate, countries, people, maps, and flags.

Site Listings

• Canadian Council for Geographic Education - Aims to strengthen geographic education in the classroom, and to increase the public awareness of the importance of geographical literacy.
• CountryWatch.com:Website to The World - Country Information: including current political, historical, economic, environemental, demographic data.
• Cyber-Geography Research - An initiative to map cyberspace, this site contains a variety of pages dedicated to helping the viewing not only understand "cyber geography" but to visualize it as well.
• Environmental Geography - Dr. James Hayes Bohanan - Geography of the environment, and the use of the web in higher education.
• European Spatial Planning Resource and Information Database (ESPRID) - The database focuses on the spatial dimensions of territorial development processes and the spatial impacts of EU, national, regional and local policies across the European continent.
• Geographic.org - Learn about world geography, climate, countries, people, maps, and flags. Intended for elementary through junior high school students.
• The Degree Confluence Project - The Degree Confluence Project contains photographs of the intersections of integer latitude and longitude degree lines.