Reference Shelf

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Government & Politics
Country 

• Library of Congress Country Studies
• INCORE Internet Country Guides
• Portals to the World: Library of Congress
• Embassy World
• CIA World FactBook
• U.S. Department of State Background Notes
• Foreign Government Resources on the Web
• Governments on the WWW
• PopNet: Directory for Global Population Information
• Cultural Profiles Project
• Flags of the World
• Statistics 

 United States

• Frequently Used Sites Related to U.S. Federal Government Information
• FirstGov.gov
• Federal Web Locator
• GPO Access
• THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet
• Statistical Abstract of the United States
• Fedstats: One Stop Shopping Federal Statistics
• U.S. Census Bureau
• AmeriStat
• National Criminal Justice Reference Center
• Education Statistics at a Glance
• Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States
• The Flag of the United States

City, Counties, & States

• Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Business and Industry
• US City & Town Official Web Sites
• STI: ERsys: Earth Resource System
• Sperling's Best Places
• County and City Data Book
• Lexis-Nexis Academic: State Profiles (Wilkes users only)
• 50 States and Capitals
• State & County QuickFacts
• State and Metropolitan Area Data Book
• State and Local Government on the Net
• State and Local Governments (Library of Congress)
• Pennsylvania State Data Center