We have compiled a series of guides for over 270 countries and territories. These include features, demographics, geography data, interactive world maps, thousands of satellite photos, scrollable city images and links to resources about each country within the Intute database. You can even compare data between countries. You may go straight to the entry for a specific country via the dropdown menu, or you can search for satellite images and features by keyword.
UPDATE - Nov 2009
New real-time GOES weather imagery available!
Search the World Guide
About
The guide contains 5,700 HTML pages, 5,500 images, 1,300 figures, 20,000 Internet links and more than 300,000 words of text. Links to Web resources are updated daily. Launched in March 2004, the guide has been accessed by users in over 200 countries. The guide was initially compiled over a 6-8 week period in early 2004. It is updated periodically with new data and images.
Permissions and Sources
All images have been sourced, with permission, from a range of NASA sites, and are accredited. Factual information and maps for each region have been partly sourced from the CIA World Factbook, which is in the public domain.
