Check this out for newspaper articles and country overviews!!! http://www.economist.com/countries/
Universal Currency Converter http://www.xe.com/ucc/
Newspapers from around the world http://library.uncg.edu/news/
Best map website on internet - 1000's of maps!!! http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/
Flags of the World - Information about all maps of the world. http://flagspot.net/flags/iso3166.html
Some of the links nol onger work, but overall a good website for traditional dress from around the world. How people dress around the world
http://www.countryreports.org/Index.aspx
http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/places/directory.html
More information about how people dress http://www.costumepage.org/tcpinfo3.html