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Geography, demographics, economy, history, and government
- World Population: 6,302,309,691 (July 2003 est.)
- Total Land Surface Area: 149 million sq. km (10.6% arable)
- Total Water Surface Area: 361 million sq. km
- Highest Point: Mount Everest, 8,850 m (Asia)
- Lowest Point: Mariana Trench, 10,924 m (Pacific Ocean)
- Major Languages: Mandarin Chinese (14%), Hindi (6%), English (6%), Spanish (6%), Bengali (3.4%), Portuguese (2.6%)
- Major Religions: Christianity (33%), Islam (20%), Hinduism (13%), Buddhism (6%), Sikhism (0.4%), Judaism (0.25%), other
(13%), non-religious (13%), atheism (2.5%)
- Gross World Product: $49 trillion (2002 est.)
- Per capita GDP: $7,900 (2002 est.)
- Internet Users: 604,111,719 (2002 est.)
- Literacy: 77%
- Life expectancy: 64.0 years (70.2f, 62.0m)
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Sources
- CIA World Factbook | The World
- United Nations Human Development Index
- United Nations World Population, 1998
- Population Reference Bureau (PRB)
- US Census Bureau | World Population Information ()
- Educational Sites
- Classroom Connect - the english language and literature, history, art history, and foreign languages
- Exploratorium - educational site
- MarcoPolo - Internet content for the classroom
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Portals, indexes, guides, searchers, phone directories
- Directories of International Organisations
- Geneva International Forum - directory of international institutions, missions, consulates and companies
- Union of International Associations (UIA) - nonprofit clearing house for information on over 40,000 international organizations and
constituencies, especially NGOs
- Internet Search Engines
- Altavista
- Dogpile
- Excite
- Variety -
comprehensive search engine, geographical directory with yellow pages and people search
- Google
- Hotbot
- Lycos
- WebCrawler
- Yahoo!
- Portals:
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