FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS
Comprehensive Web Site Listings

Adminet - World

• Meta index to information for over 200 countries
• Includes government, defense, sports, cities, health, industries, environment, universities
• Arranged by country with separate indexes for subjects and regions
• Although Adminet is French, the text for this segment is English

Caribbean Links

• Directory of government web sites on the Caribbean Islands
• Extensive information on news, weather, business, travel
• Arranged by country or searchable by subject

Central Asia Resource Project

• Links to economic, government, political, and cultural information about Central Asian countries, mostly from U.S. sources

Defense and Strategy Related WWW Sites (U.S. Amry)

• Links for foreign governments and their military bases
• Extensive section on area studies includes religious groups and news sources
• Arms control, human rights, terrorism, warfare and U.S. defense also covered

Eurasia Research Center

• Geographic coverage: Russia and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Middle East, Central and South Asia
• Links to country home pages (some produced outside the country) and news sources, including the Clarinet News
• Links to international and human rights organizations with interests in the area

Flags of the World

• Large color illustrations of national flags

Foreign Embassies

• Diplomatic List (U.S. State Department)
  • Personnel and contact information for foreign embassies in the United States
• Foreign Consular Offices in the United States
  • Contact information for consular offices, arranged by foreign country and then U.S. location
• Foreign Embassies in Washington, D.C.
  • Foreign embassy addresses in Washington, D.C.
  • Links to travel information abroad
• Foreign Embassies Worldwide
  • Links to foreign embassy web sites and gophers in the United States, Canada, and other selected countries
  • Includes web pages of U.S. embassies and USIA outposts abroad
• Key Officers of Foreign Service Posts
  • United States embassies abroad and embassy personnel by subject
• Latin American Embassies (UMich)
  • Complete directory of foreign embassies in Latin American countries and Latin American embassies and consulates in other countries
  • Includes links to the corresponding embassy web pages
• Permanent Missions to the United Nations (UNDP)
  • Links to web sites of UN missions from various countries
• United States Representatives Abroad
  • Embassy Page
    • Lists U.S. embassies and U.S. Information Service outposts with web sites abroad
    • The Canadian representatives from the U.S. are listed on a separate page
  • U.S. Consular Offices Abroad (State Department)
    • Links to U.S. embassy and consultate web pages abroad
• Political Science Resources on the Net consolidates missions to and from a country under the name of the country

Foreign Governments via CityNet

• Information about most world governments included
• Occasional links to foreign government sites

Foreign Governments (Intl.Docs.Task Force)

• Approximately 400 links to agencies in about 80 countries
• Focus on ministries, parliaments, and statistics

Foreign Governments via One if By Congress

• Extensive list of government, media, cultural and business web sites by continent and country
• Some annotations

Foreign Governments via Purdue

• Extensive unannotated links to foreign country web sites
• Especially adept at finding web sites for smaller countries

Foreign Governments via Yahoo

• Foreign government web sites

Governments on the WWW

• Comprehensive listings of national, regional, and municipal government sites as well political party information for most Eastern and Western European Countries
• Includes language of site and name of government agency translated into English
• Lengthy sections for African, American, Asian, and Oceanic governments with national web sites and embassies
• Table in each section lists number of entries and when last updated

Independent States of the World (State Dept)

• List of independent countries
• Includes short and long form of name, capital, and official two-digit abbreviation
• Symbols note diplomatic relations with the U.S. and United Nations membership

International Chamber of Commerce Directory

• Search chambers of commerce by city, province/state, or country
• Links to web sites and provides e-mail addresses

International Directory of Utility Regulatory Institutions

• World Bank directory of transportation, energy, and water/sewage regulatory agencies
• Arranged by country and by sector (e.g. aviation)
• Each entry includes agency contact information and regulatory responsibilities

Latin American Political DataBase (Georgetown)

• Extensive links to government web sites in Latin American countries
• Includes constitutions, electoral laws, and election data

MicroState Resources

• Microstates are very small nations, such as the Bahamas
• Arranged by continent and country
• Links include U.S. State Department and CIA sources, travel and cultural information, occasionally government information

Military Network

• Annotated links to U.S. military and military academy web sites
• Extensive links to foreign governments and foreign government military web sites

National Parliaments (U.Minn.)

• Alphabetical links to the web sites of foreign legislative bodies
• Information provided by the legislative web pages varies considerably

Political Science Resources on the Internet (U. Keele)

• Directories of foreign government officials
• Foreign election results and constitutions
• Links to foreign national and subnational web sites

Political Resources on the Net (Italy)

• Hundreds of links to parties, movements, elections, political organizations, government, and embassy web sites arranged by country
• Searchable by country or world region
• Web site has outstanding coverage and merits its high ratings

PRAXIS (UPenn)

• Links to international governmental and non-governmental, regional, and social work organizations
• Links to social and economic development web sites arranged by subject (e.g. population, housing, culture, employment) as well as social services available
• Reference tools for social workers in the field of international development, including maps, flags, contacts, and travel information

Small Islands Information Network

• List of small islands by ocean with links to U.S. State Department information and country sites as available
• Directory of organizations for small islands

Subject Index to Foreign Government Information (U. Colo.)

• Annotated subject index to foreign and international web sites and publications

European Local Government Officers Data Base

• Web site primarily an advertisement for a commercial data base not available at the University of Michigan
• Links to national and international organizations of local governments on the web site free-of-charge

International Chamber of Commerce Directory

• Search chambers of commerce by city, province/state, or country
• Links to web sites and provides e-mail addresses

International Local Governments

• Links to city web sites and their associations
• Arranged by continent and country

Sister Cities International

• List of sister cities by U.S. state and city and by foreign government

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Grace York, Coordinator, Documents Center
The University of Michigan Library
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