European Stamp Project

Here are resources for the following items.

US Commemorative Stamp Examples

CIA World Factbook

• Relative Location - look under Geography - "Location"
• Physical Geography - look under Geography at entries under things like Coastline, Elevation extremes,
• Natural Resources - look under Geography - "Natural Resources"
• Advantages/Disadvantages of geography - look at the data and think about it!
• Map - right at the top of the page!

BBC Country Profiles

• Culture and interesting cultural elements

InfoPlease - Countries of the World

• Culture and interesting cultural elements

Other resources

Country Reports and Profiles

• Factmonster Countries
• U.S. State Department Information
• Library of Congress Country Studies
• The European Union Countries

European News

• BBC News of Europe

Flags, Maps, Holidays, Weather, Currency

• Coloring Book of Flags
• Currency Converter
• MapQuest Europe
• Earth Calendar (World Holidays by Country)
• WeatherBase Climate Info - all countries - Know your capital city first!
• WeatherBase Climate Info - Boston (use for comparison)
• World Weather Information Service
  • Travel information, including cuisine
  • Frommer's Europe - check the bottom of the page to links for each country
  • Lonely Planet Guide - Europe
  • World Travel Guide - Europe
  • Rough Guides Travel Guide Europe
  • MSN Travel - Type in the name of your country under Search MSN Travel in the middle of the page.
  • New York Times Travel section - search destinations
  • Recipe Source: European recipies by country
  • European Cuisine (food)
  • Living & Working in Europe
  • Expat Focus Country Guides
  • Monster.com - Overseas Jobs
  • European Real Estate
  • Expatriate Websites
  • Just Landed - info for working and studying overseas
  • Just for Fun
  • European Map Scramble