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Short general overview

Target of our web site is to enable our visitors in short time an overview about all countries and territories of the world, that what a consultant need to go to a new country he never has visited before. So we have there the country basic information and an country map with the population density inside of the official administrative division.

General Our key business is the elaboration of thematic maps according to the investigation or working issue of our visitants. For interested visitors are described the conditions and prices under the example map.

On the page are marked also the membership on international treaties or in international organisations - as expandable list under the table with the population data.

As additional service we offer our link collection - links to the country information on interesting and useful web sites.

The graphic shows the internal structure of the content pages of our web site. The main content is unified in the menu option MAPS.

Clicking MAPS you can define the Region you are interested - and there the country - coming to the country pages - in total currently 291 countries and territories. On all pages is on the side a Quick select box to come directly to the country of interest.

Under the same Quick select box is an link to the List of international organisations and treaties included on our web. Currently there are 210 organisations and treaties included, for which we have an short description page of the treaty with links to the official treaty or organisation web site and the WIKIPEDIA page. On this page are also listed the member states in their functional membership - as full member, observer or special member. This country list connects again the country page.

On the country pages you can expand the list of memberships on international treaties of the country - as Extend button under the population list of the country - before the neighbour states list.

Now we like to illustrate in an graphic the links on the country pages.

Country page

Contry page

If the country has territorial disputes with neighbouring countries, a further expandable list International border disputes appears under the expandable list of membership in international treaties and organisations. In the example screen for the Czech Republic, this list is not displayed as no territorial claims are registered.

Link structure of an country page

The thematic links on the country pages we have grouped in 4 groups, country data, international and special data, as well as the additional data in the country header of each page.

Country data
Official Web-Portal of the country The linked page is the official web-site of the government of the corresponding country - this can be the government, the president or the parliament web. The page is useful for general information and as starting point for pages of the existing ministries and other issues.

National Law This page is the start page for any legal issues, looking for existing laws or laws in preparation. There can be linked the Justice Ministry or an equivalent content page of the country. For member states of the EU this is mostly the corresponding EU N-Lex page.

Statistical Office Here is linked the official web page of the res-ponsible statistical institution of the country. In any cases, especially for African countries this can link also the page of statistical multinational institutions, wherever could not be defined the official statistical web.

National Media Behind this link is an list of the national media, including internet, TV and radio stations and newspaper and magazines, giving there the first overview, but linking at the same time the publisher page. This is useful to have an overview about the actual issues in the country, but can be used also to drill deeper in special questions over the archive of the linked page.

National Holydays Always necessary to know for project planning - National Holidays. Anyone who has ever been misguided in a short-term project, from 5 days per country to only 2 for the same work, understands this. The page is in German - but it's the most complete I've found - so Google Translate helps!

Wikipedia There must not be explained more - today an standard source, but still very superficial. There must be taken in consideration that any countries have special branches to manage there the desired official point of view. But still a useful first information source.

Diplomatic relations This page shows the diplomatic relations of the country to other states, in some cases also the presence of consulates in the respective country, but without specifying their contact details - but is a good starting point for further searches. At the bottom of the page in Wikipedia is linked the presence of diplomatic missions in other states.

German Ministry of Foreign Affairs This page shows the public official version of the country information of the German government. It´s a widely moderate country profile. The original version is in German, there exists also an English and an silplified German version.

Spanish Foreign Ministry This page shows the public official version of the country information of the Spanish government. It´s a widely moderate country profile, but in any interesting point different, comparing with the German point of view. Example Kosovo, Palestine and Western Sahara. The document is an PDF file and only in Spanish available.

OECD The OECD page gives a mostly economically oriented country profile, also with many time series to the main indicators and the country inside the ranking between others.

OECD-iLibarary This link - same organisation as before - lists the available own documents and from other sources concerning the country.

CIA - World Fact book The Fact book is one of the standard sources, usually good maintained information - covering shortly the most important data of any country. Useful and interesting special information is country situation in international territorial disputes, so concentrated not easy to find in other sources. The source is politically highly controversial.

International data
UN-Data UN-Data is the most representative data site of the UN. Here is published source information supplied by the country, in an mix of different focus groups. The web was currently changed to an responsive design for small displays - loosing so many of the data content in the presentation.

United Nations Population Fund In its data section, the UNFPA provides additional information on the population structure of the country, as well as on ongoing and planned central projects.

International Organization for Migration IOM is oriented in migration issues, but also in border and identity problems. The information is more state near as the information of the UNHCR.

UN Refugee Agency The UNHCR is focused also on migration issues, but more UN near as IOM. Both information together are complementary with certain over-lapping information.

World Health Organisation Here is listed the country page of the WHO - fo-cused on the health situation of the country. Like on other UN sites you can find there also interesting time series.

UNESCO Profil The UNESCO is focused on education, culture and technological development of their member countries. The correspon-ding information can be seen on the linked country profile page. The data appears not so well updated - there are still countries listed which have quitted the membership.

UN Children´s Fund There is linked the country page of UNICEF - UN organisation focused on the child health and conditions of their development - showing also social conditions like education and sanitation and water supply. There are also time series available.

UNCTAD This UN site gives mostly economic, financial and trade related information about the correspon-ding country, mixed in tables and graphics in an one page overview - Dashboard style. But deeper drilling is useful.

World Bank The linked WB country page displays the financial and economical main indicators of the country. Interesting in this page is the possibility to down-load information in formats like CSV, XML or Excel.

International Monetary Fund The IMF country page gives not so much infor-mation as the WB on a first view, but there are directly linked an archive of country relevant documents which is very interesting - if you are looking for finan-cial and macroeconomic infor-mation.

Special data
FAO - Statistics The link connects the country page of the statisti-cal data collection of the country - Dashboard style. The content is agriculture and food supply oriented, corresponding to the working content of this UN organisation, The presented data is partially structured as time series.

FAO - Country Profile The FAO country profile gives summary over-view about the detailed data of the page before - naturally same content as before - agriculture, nutrition, etc. In the lower part of the page are links to more detailed interesting information.

IEA Energy Atlas Here is linked the country page of the energy atlas, giving an more generally overview about the key indicators The country relevant atlas information is limited, meanwhile a general world infor-mation is also geo-referenced available, in very good quality.

IEA Energy Statistics This page, also from the International Energy Agency, gives the access to the latest country report about the country - linked here as PDF file.

IRENA Alternative Energy This is the same information provider IEA, but focusing especially on alternative energy on an own web with country information. An click on the country map opens a list of the most important reports about alternative energy sources of the country.

Meteorology and Hydrology Content of the linked UN-WMO page is meteo-rological, hydro and clime meas-uring system and the results of these, mostly supplied by the country ministry of environment. The information starts with contact data and display the data of the implemented system and international cooperation activities.

Human Development Index The Human Development Index HDI is an composite index that set health, edu-cation and average income in an relation to approximate the human situation. Here is linked an web page giving the country data and further related studies and evaluations.

relief Disaster/Risk data The web site linked gives an overview about the natural and health risks and relevant events in the country. There are marked in a short list the last relevant events and there are possibilities to se relevant reports on the issue.

INTERPOL Czech Republic Here is linked the national Interpol page, informing about the national view of security relevant issues and publishing all public relevant information supplied to Interpol. This includes the by the country emitted notices and other infor-mation.

Global Terrorism Database The Global Terrorism Database of the University of Maryland is one of the best public sources on terrorism. Here you can see in an good detail the relevant events as time series, with many deeper information.

Additional links (in the country overview - box above)
Google Maps - Under the capital name This link appoints to the Google Map service as satellite picture - appointing to the country capital as starting point for any deeper view to the country.

XE - Under the currency name The link to the XE currency exchange page shows the actual exchange rate of the national currency and the development of the exchange rate as a time series in an chart.