International Resources, Statistics & Country Profiles

Atlapedia
http://www.atlapedia.com/ - contains physical and political maps, plus facts and statistics on the countries of the world.

Capitals.com
http://www.capitals.com/ - atlas and descriptions of countries.

Centre for Research in Public Sector Management - Australia
http://www2.canberra.edu.au/management/crpsm/welcome.htm

CIA World Factbook 1999
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/

Country Profiles
http://abcnews.go.com/reference/countryprofiles/countryprofiles_index.html

County and City Data Books - Demographics Page
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/ccdb/

Finance Canada
http://www.fin.gc.ca/links/pubadme.html - Public Administration HotLinks.

France Administration
http://www.oocities.org/france_mauduit/france-administration.html - History/Breakdown of France Administration.

Global Statistics
http://www.stats.demon.nl/ - general data on selected countries of the world, including administrative divisions (provinces) and major cities of each country.

Hong Kong Public Administration Association
http://www.hkbu.edu.hk/~hkpaa/

Infonation
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation/e_infonation.htm  - view and compare statistical data for the Member States of the United Nations.

Institute of Public Administration, Ireland  
http://www.ipa.ie/  - Ireland's leading public sector management agency offering educational programmes, public management research resource, training and consultancy and the leading publc service publisher.

IPAA – Institute of Public Administration Australia Inc.
http://boomer.anu.edu.au/community/ipaa/

IPAC – Institute of Public Administration, Canada.
http://www.ipaciapc.ca/

National Geographic Map Machine
http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine   - downloadable political and physical maps, country facts, and other geographical resources.

Parastate Public Administration (Mexican Government)
http://world.presidencia.gob.mx/pages/government/exe_parastate.html - Find a directory of independent agencies that work with the Mexican government. Links to pages in English or Spanish.

Public Administration - Russia
http://www.rags.ru/

Public Administration Promotion Center - Germany
http://www.dse.de/zoev/zoev-e.htm - German Foundation for International Development - Public Administration Promotion Centre (ZÖV).

SapaWeb: South African Public Administration
http://www.aztec.co.za/users/sapaweb - SapaWeb provides links to teaching and research resources that concentrate on the international study of public administration. From here you can access public administration news, articles, documents, conference schedules, organizations and more.

Spain - Governments on the World Wide Web
http://www.gksoft.com/govt/en/es.html - Directory of Spanish government agencies and departments offers capsule reviews of the listings in its category index of government pages.

Spain - Politics and Public Administration
http://www.DocuWeb.ca/SiSpain/english/politics/index.html - Document clearinghouse offers an archive of English and Spanish reports on politics and government in Spain. Link to the Prime Minister of Spain.

U.S. Library of Congress Country Studies
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html - series of studies on nations that include facts-at-a-glance and comprehensive sections on history, society and culture.

Your Nation
http://www.your-nation.com/ - compare countries of the world by selecting different characteristics.