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Includes online maps, links to map collections, flags, climate, weather, natural resources. For information about maps and other geographical resources at the Library of Congress, consult its Geography and Map Reading Room site.
Digital Gazetteers
GEOnet Names Server (GNS) (http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/)
Perhaps the largest online gazetteer, this sophisticated database contains over 5 million place names world-wide. A pull-down menu allows searching by country. Records provide 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. Maintained by the United States National Imagery and Mapping Agency, and Board on Geographic Names.
Getty
Thesaurus of Geographic Names (http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting%5Fresearch/vocabularies/tgn/index.html)
The Getty Center, an art museum and research institute near Los Angeles, provides information for approximately one million places world-wide, with an emphasis on places important for art and architecture.
Global Gazetteer: Latvia (http://www.fallingrain.com/world/LG/)
This site contains links to maps and geographic and meteorological information for 13,400 towns and cities in Latvia. In English.
Contemporary Maps
EmbassyWorld.com (http://www.embassyworld.com/maps/Maps_Of_Latvia.html)
Maps of Latvia is a portal to websites that offer various types of maps: political, physical, city and travel. Most are commercial or fee based services. In English.
Perry-Castañeda Library
Map Collection (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/latvia.html)
Latvia maps section sponsored by the University of Texas Libraries.
Environment
AGRICOLA (http://www.nal.usda.gov)
The U.S. National Agricultural Library makes available two important databases: 1) its online catalog, which reflects the library's holdings of books, periodicals and other materials; and 2) its subject-indexed database of periodical articles, reflecting the contents of agricultural journals world-wide from 1971 to the present. Thousands of article citations pertain to each of the East European countries or come from agricultural periodicals based there.
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. Allows users to gather information from the searchable database, display data tables, view country profiles, or select maps with global, regional, and country-level environmental information.
Latvijas Republikas Vides ministrija (http://www.vidm.gov.lv/eng/)
The Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Latvia site supplies news, a list of recent legislative updates, and links to regional environmental boards. In Latvian, with limited information in English.
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