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These sites provide information, links, databases and search engines concerning geography, climate, agriculture, natural resources, and environment, including gazetteers and maps. For information about maps and other geographic resources at the Library of Congress, consult the website of its Geography and Map Reading Room.
Bukovina Society
of the Americas. Map Room (http://www.bukovinasociety.org/map-room.html)
Links to several maps of the Bucovina region, including one with ethnographic information.
Central European Environmental Data
Request Facility (http://www.cedar.at/sitemap.htm)
Aimed at supporting international data exchange with the Central and Eastern European environmental community. Maintains an active email discussion group. A service of the International Society for Environmental Protection, located in Austria.
Directory of Cities, Towns,
and Cities in Moldova (http://www.fallingrain.com/world/MD/)
Information for over 5,300 cities and towns in Moldova including altitude and latitude/longitude, as well as meteorological information, population (estimate), and airports and aviation waypoints. In English.
EarthTrends (http://earthtrends.wri.org)
An environmental information portal for researching global topics such as water resources, climate and atmosphere, population and health, energy resources, and agriculture and food. Search the database, display data tables, view country profiles, or select maps with global, regional, and country-level environmental information.
Federation of East European Family History Societies
(FEEFHS) (http://feefhs.org)
An umbrella organization that promotes family research in eastern and central Europe without any ethnic, religious, or social distinctions. Several historical maps are from Blackie & Son's "Comprehensive Atlas & Geography of the World" (Edinburgh, 1882). The site also includes several maps of present-day Moldova.
JewishGen ShtetlSeeker
Town Search (http://www.jewishgen.org/shtetlseeker/loctown.htm)
Part of the JewishGen Web site. Search by town using exact spelling or the Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex system. Search will display the latitude and longitude for each location, the distance/direction from the country's capital city, and links to maps. Gazetteer information from the U.S. Board of Geographic Names was used extensively in Where Once We Walked, a book focusing on shtetls in Eastern Europe used in the mapping function of the search.
National Geographic (http://www.nationalgeographic.com)
Search on Moldova.
Regional Environmental Center for Central and
Eastern Europe (http://www.rec.org)
A nonprofit organization based in Budapest which encourages cooperation on environmental issues among governments, NGOs and businesses in Central and Eastern Europe. Its search engine retrieves nearly 70 documents on Moldova. In English.
U.S. Department of Agriculture. NAL
Catalog (http://agricola.nal.usda.gov)
AGRICOLA (NAL Catalog) provides citations to agricultural literature. Search simultaneously on books--books, serials, audiovisuals, and other resources; as well as articles--journal articles, book chapters, short reports, and reprints. Almost 200 of the article citations are about Moldova or come from Moldovan agricultural periodicals. Many more citations concern Moldova's neighbors--Romania and Ukraine.
U.S. Department of
Energy. Energy Information Administration. Country Analysis Briefs. Southeastern
Europe (http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/seeurope.html)
Background information as well as data on oil, oil transit, gas, electricity, and related links. Includes graphics and statistics.
U.S. Department of the Interior. USGS Minerals Information. Europe and Central Asia: Moldova (http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/country/europe.html#mk)
The United States Geological Survey provides lengthy annual reports on the mineral resources of most countries throughout the world. For Moldova the annual reports are archived beginning 1994.
U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence
Agency (NGA). GEONet Names Server (GNS) (http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/)
GNS provides access to NGA's and the U.S. Board on Geographic Names' (US BGN) database of foreign geographic feature names. The database is the official repository of foreign place-name decisions approved by the US BGN. Approximately 20,000 of the database's features are updated monthly. Searches give the name of each location or feature, variant spellings, latitude and longitude, and additional numeric data. Searches may focus on a variety of elements, such as populated place, administrative region, type of area, vegetation, and fresh- and saltwater features. Searches may also be limited to areas demarcated by two lines each of latitude and longitude.
University of Texas
at Austin. Perry Casteñada Library Map Collection. Moldova Maps (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/moldova.html)
Country and thematic maps of Moldova.
Weather Underground: Republic
of Moldova (http://www.wunderground.com/global/M1.html)
Provides the current weather and forecasts for thousands of locales worldwide, including at least four places in Moldova listed with transliterations from Russian: Bel'tsy (Balti in Romanian); Kishinev (Chişinău in Romanian); Komrat (Comrat in Romanian); and Kornesty (Cornesti in Romanian). For Kishinev/Chişinău it provides a link for 'Seasonal Weather Averages, ' i.e., average monthly high temperatures, average monthly low temperatures, and average monthly precipitation. For these cities it is supposed to give current temperature, humidity, dew point, wind, atmospheric pressure, cloud cover, sunrise/sunset, moonrise/moonset, and moon phase, but often these data are lacking.
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