Database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources.
Encyclopedias and specialized reference resources in: Arts, Biography, History, Information and Publishing, Law, Literature, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, Nation and World, Religion, Science, Social Science
Reference resources from the Oxford University Press. Includes English dictionaries and thesauruses, English language reference books, bilingual dictionaries, quotations, maps and illustrations, timelines and subject reference sources.
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Economic, political, historical, and geographic profiles of 250+ countries and global regions. Includes contact information for officials and features information on over 1,700 international organizations.
Europa World Plus is the online version of the Europa World Year Book and the nine-volume Regional Surveys of the World series:
Africa South of the Sahara
Central and South-Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe
Russia and Central Asia
The Far East and Australasia
The Middle East and North Africa
South America
Central America and the Caribbean
South Asia
The USA and Canada
Western Europe.
The Europa World Year Book was first published in 1926 and it covers political and economic information from more than 250 countries and territories. Europa World Plus includes a section that profiles various International Organizations, and there is a section that provides Comparative Statistics on countries along with accompanying data that can be exported as CSV and tab-delimited data.
This database only includes the most recent information.