Il faut être toujours botté et prêt à partir.
One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
One of the first ways that Internet resources were organized was based on their actual location on the planet. Further development of this concept led to the organization of resources based on what part of the planet they covered. If the kind of information you are looking for is somehow related to a particular place, the following links may be helpful.
These links lead to various geographical or placed-based resource lists. Using Point 1 will be most useful when the information you desire is either about a locale, or most likely to be provided by a certain institution or organization whose location you know.
Information resources listed by where they originate
- WWW Homes of American Universities
- WWW Homes of International (i.e., non-American) Universities
- Virtual Tourist World Map
- This is a map-based interface to the registered server list from the W3 Consortium. The list is maintained by various folks the world over.
Information resources listed by where they are about
- City.Net
- All about the world, use the clickable map, do a search, or use the text listing of places. Any way you go, this site has lots of great information about every corner of the globe.
- Yahoo! Regional:Countries
- A mega-listing of information by country