Keep in touch with the world

Thomas from Presence

I happened upon this site recently. It gives info on every country on the Earth (Except for the Vatican strangely) as well as local news reports. Handy if your into your history or if your wondering what happened in San Marino this week or why it isn't part of Italy, if indeed you wonder about such things (like me with my sitting in front of the computer on Friday night life!)

www.countrywatch.com

dahamsta

Consider it bookmarked, thanks. I always found the CIA World Factbook rather handy meself.

EDIT: By the way, CountryWatch does have information on Vatican City, it's under 'H' for Holy See.

adam

sceptre

Interesting site, Thomas, thanks for the heads-up

Like Adam, I've used the CIA Factbook where necessary - this looks like a good one to use in tandem with it.

amp

Wow, the religion of the Holy See is 100% Catholic, go figure.

Clintons Cat

nice site,
why nor put it in the "useful links" thread at the top of the politics board.

Victor

In the Irish section: "Irish Patrol Warship Concludes Visit to

Shanghai" hahahah! (the 'Warship' - http://www.military.ie/naval/niamh.htm)

Eh, soz. Yeah looks like it might be handy, but possibly naive, e.g. :

Ethnic Divisions
Celtic n/a
English n/a

The pictures are also a bit diddly-eye.

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Some stuff seems 'borrowed' from the CIA website or a mutual source, e.g. maps.