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Welcome to the Houston Cole Library "Country Information Libguide". Here you will find links to key resources that will help you locate information about your country.

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Britannica Academic
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Combination of the Encyclopædia Britannica, Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, thesaurus, magazines, periodicals, and many other research tools providing a variety of reliable sources students need for research.
A Britannica database provided by the AVL

CIA World Factbook
"The Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities."

Global Issues in Context
Analyze important global issues and events through topic overviews, international viewpoints, news, and multimedia content.
A Gale Cengage database

Human Development Reports
United Nations data reports organized by country on employment, health, life-expectancy, and other human development indicators.
International Demographic Information
U.S. Census listing of international demographics.

Political Science Complete
Extensive full-text collection and index to political science literature. It includes online full-text for 500+ academic journals in political science and related fields and provides cover to cover indexing for a total of 1,000 political science journals and selective coverage for an additional 1,000 journals in related fields. It also includes a collection of some 340 reference and other political science e-books.
An EBSCOhost database

United Nations Statistics
Search multiple United Nations statistical databases.
USEmbassy.gov
Select a country to access basic information about the country, its culture, and more.

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