Photos of Places

Looking for some images of a country to use in a geography or foreign language report? Try some of these websites.

CIA World Factbook - Look up your country and then look in the center of the page under the flag. Many countries now have a bank of copyright-free photos that you can use.

Panoramio - Cool Places

List of places around the world with photographs, tagged by location - you can also search for place names. Now tied in with Google Maps. Very cool!

World Images

From Teacher/Librarian: "Explore the almost 75,000 images housed at this easily searchable gallery, which is part of the California State University IMAGE project. Images can also be easily browsed via subject access from the homepage. The superb images are intended for use in student projects and teaching materials."

New York Times

• Travel section - Choose your destination at the top and then go to the page with travel articles for your country or region. Look for slide shows on the left side or at photos that go with specific articles.
• News Bank listed by Country -choose your country then go look for photos in the photo section on the right, in the multimedia section (look for slide shows) or look at articles and the photos that go with them.

Lonely Planet Travel Guides - Find your country and then look at the photos in the Gallery

TrekEarth - website that photographers use to post travel photos from all over the world, organized and classified by location.