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Geography and Environment: Algeria

Includes online maps, links to other map collections, flags, climate, weather, natural resources.

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 African & Middle Eastern Division,
Collections and Services Directorate

Al-Bawaba (http://albawaba.com/en/countries/Algeria)
A major portal site that links to Web sites on all the Arab countries (click on a specific country). Contains up-to-date information on the political, business, social, cultural and religious aspects of a particular country. In Arabic and English.

Algeria-Interface (http://www.algeria.com)
Links to other Web sites that cover political, social and cultural issues in the country.

CNN.com International-Weather (http://edition.cnn.com/WEATHER/)
From "Find Weather Around the World" -- select Africa, then Algeria and search on a variety of cities.

The Country and People of Algeria (http://www.hejleh.com/countries/algeria.html)
Covers historical as well as current events.

Development Gateway (http://www.developmentgateway.org/cg/country-gateways/country.do~country=dz~iso3=DZA)
Not-for-profit organization established in July 2001 to build partnerships and information systems that provide access to knowledge for development by exploiting various information and communication technologies. Search by development projects as well as by country to identify Web sites and documents.

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (http://www.fao.org/countryProfiles/index.asp?lang=en&ISO3=DZA)
Country profile and mapping information system for Algeria.

MapQuest (http://www.mapquest.com/maps/)
General site for maps. Search by country and by city.

Maps.com (formerly Magellan Geographix) (http://www.maps.com/)
User may view samples of the wide variety of maps available as well as order maps or atlases, by downloading, CD-ROM. or in hard copy.

National Geographic Society (http://www.nationalgeographic.com/)
Search On Algeria

National Office of Statistics (http://www.ons.dz)
Government site that includes online publications with the latest official statistics on socio-economic issues including the 1998 population census, housing information, consumer price indexes.

Princeton University Library: Near Eastern Studies Resources (http://www.princeton.edu/%7Epressman/neareast.htm)
Princeton Library's site dedicated to Near Eastern Studies provides not only invaluable information about Princeton's programs and collections, but also extensive links to sites (libraries, universities, institutes, think tanks, directories, gateways, newspapers, etc.) around the world concerning all aspects of the discipline.

Theodora.com (http://www.theodora.com/wfbcurrent/algeria/index.html)
Historical events as well as current information about the economy, government, and politics of Algeria.

United Nations Cartographic Section (http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/english/htmain.htm)
Available in English or French versions. Offers detailed maps of many countries.

U.S. Library of Congress Country Studies (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/)
A series published by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Studies Handbook Program sponsored by the Department of the Army.

U.S. Library of Congress Geography and Map Division (http://www.loc.gov/rr/geogmap/)
Website of one of the largest map repositories in the world.

University of Texas at Austin. Perry-Castenada Library Map Collection: Algeria (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/algeria.html)
Country, city, and thematic maps of Algeria.

World Climate (http://www.worldclimate.com/)
Search by city or town name for information such as average sea-level pressure, average maximum and minimum temperatures, and average rainfall. The climate data are historicall averages-per month-over a range of years.

World Heritage Site in Algeria
(http://whc.unesco.org/en/statesparties/dzp://www.unep-wcmc.org/protected%5Fareas/data/wh/tassili.html)
Important site for the internationally protected areas of Southeastern Algeria.

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