Comprehensive, authoritative, and easy to navigate, World Geography and Culture is an award-winning resource for the study of countries, cultures, and geography concepts.

Every country of the world is profiled in depth, with more than 40 entries and more than 100 statistical indicators covering all aspects of its geography, history, society, and culture. At-a-glance information, maps and flags, videos, images, gazetteer entries, biographies of famous people, a timeline, and current news supplement each country profile. Information for the U.S. states, Canadian provinces, and international territories is similarly detailed.

In addition to researching individual countries and states, a variety of tools are available for studying Earth and geographic regions, comparing countries and states, and researching terms and concepts:

• Compare and rank countries and states by a variety of indicators.
• Browse full-color regional and world maps on a variety of topics, including demographic, economic, education, energy, and politics.
• Learn about key ideas important to the study of geography by exploring the Geography Concepts and Principles section.
• Explore the Earth system through illustrations in the section Focus on the Earth.
• Research land-forms, water features, and administrative regions by browsing the Gazetteer.
• Discover the top 10 biggest cities, largest deserts, highest mountains, and much more by viewing lists of geography extremes.
• Look up a term in the extensive geography glossary.
• Convert between the most common units of area, length, temperature, time, weight, energy, speed, or volume using the conversion calculator.

Highlights:

• Extensive country entries: descriptions of more than 200 countries and territories, with information on geography, people and culture, weather and climate, history, government, and society; maps and flags; facts and figures; videos and images; and news articles
• Original, easy-to-read maps: more than 1,600 political, elevation, and outline maps; regional geographic and thematic maps; city, state, and physical features maps; and more
• Compare and rank tools: tools that compare and rank countries or U.S. states by a variety of criteria
• Images and videos: more than 8,000 images and illustrations offer a visual exploration of the world’s cultures and more than 2,300 video clips from 180 full-length videos provide introductions to the study of human and physical geography
• News articles by country, updated regularly
• Authoritative source list: expertly researched and written content from a wealth of print titles.

Appropriate for: Grade 6+