Free or affordable alternatives to Culturegrams:
- CIA World Factbook Everything you ever wanted to know about countries.
- U. S. Department of State Use the background notes for each country.
- BBC News Search for your country, then select *Country Profile* from the links that come up.
- Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development Themission of the OECD is to promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world. This is a good source for graphs and charts.
- World Bank All things economic and population
- Online Etymology Dictionary Good site to find the origin of your country's name.
- Etiquette Scholar International dining etiquette by region
- Global Road Warrior <https://www.globalroadwarrior.com/>
- Culture Crossing <http://guide.culturecrossing.net/>
- Fact Monster <https://www.factmonster.com/>
- City or State Libraries
- BibMe - Citation maker makes it easy to make a works cited page or a bibliography in MLA or APA format. No password or username is needed for bibme. But signing in is free, you just need an email address and then you can use the advanced features.
- HyperHistory Online has "over 2000 files covering 3000 years of world history." Includes science, culture, religion and politics. No password or username is needed for HyperHistory Online.
- World Atlas.com - A concise world atlas online. No username or password is needed for this site.