Maps and Travel Information

The World Factbook, produced for US policymakers and coordinated throughout the US Intelligence Community, marshals facts on every country, dependency, and geographic entity in the world. We share this information with the people of all nations in the belief that knowledge of the truth underpins the functioning of free societies.

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

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Courtesy of Indo.com - discount Bali hotels, this service uses data from the US Census and a supplementary list of cities around the world to find the latitude and longitude of two places, and then calculates the distance between them (as the crow flies). It also provides a map showing the two places, using the Xerox PARC Map Server.

From the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at UT Austin.

A gazeteer--find the location of any place name.

For road maps, driving directions and much more

Travel news from offbeat travellers. Searchable database -- you can type in your destination and find all documents where that term shows up.

For road maps and driving directions

The National Map is now offering a collection of small-scale datasets that can be downloaded for free. Although the 1997-2014 Edition of the National Atlas of the United States was retired in September 2014, The National Map recognizes the importance of continuing to make a collection of the small-scale datasets, originally developed for the National Atlas, available to users.

From the U.S. State Department, including unstable governments, crime, availability of doctors and banks.

The place to locate ANY American geographic feature by name.