A Selective List of Internet Sites
The following is a selective list of Internet sites for government servers. For strategies for locating sites not on this list see our Locating Foreign Government Information on the Internet page.
Starting Places | Embassies and Diplomatic Missions | Finding more sites | Directories of Government Officials | News Sources | Africa | The Americas | Asia and the Pacific | Europe | The Middle East
Some general places to start
- Political Resources on the NET
Listings of political sites available on the Internet sorted by country, with links to Parties, Organizations, Governments, Media and more from all around the world. - Yahoo! : Government : Countries : National Governments
- The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
for online maps of foreign countries try this site at the University of Texas at Austin Library.
Embassies and Diplomatic Missions
- embassy.org : The Electronic Embassy
- Embassy World
- Web Sites of the Permanent Missions to the United Nations
- Web Sites of National Parliaments -- from the Inter-Parliamentary Union
Finding More Sites
- Strategies for Locating National Government Information
Since no list of web sites is ever completely up to date this page has strategies for how to locate new government sites.
Directories of Government Officials
In addition to the official sites of individual governments these directories provide lists of government officials.
- Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments
from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. "The directory is intended to be used primarily as a reference aid and includes as many governments of the world as is considered practical, some of them not officially recognized by the United States." - United States Government Manual -- a directory of U.S. officials
News Sources
- Open Society Institute
"The Open Society Institute (OSI), a private operating and grantmaking foundation, aims to shape public policy to promote democratic governance, human rights, and economic, legal, and social reform. On a local level, OSI implements a range of initiatives to support the rule of law, education, public health, and independent media. At the same time, OSI works to build alliances across borders and continents on issues such as combating corruption and rights abuses." - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)
*The mission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is to promote democratic values and institutions by d isseminating factual information and ideas." - World News Connection -- translations of foreign news stories.
Africa
- Africa : Country Pages via the University of Pennsylvania African Studies Center
- Egypt
- South Africa
- Zambia
The Americas
- Political Database of the Americas via Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
- Summits of the Americas Information Network
- Canada
- Chile
- Chilean Government
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs (in Spanish)
- Costa Rica
- Costa Rican Government (in Spanish)
- Costa Rican Government (in English) from the Costa Rica Information Center
- Mexico
- Mexico Government Offices, Agencies & Politics via MEXonline.com, "the oldest & most trusted online guide to Mexico".
- Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI)
- Ministry of Finance
- Foreign Relations Ministry
- Secretaría de Gobernación (in Spanish) Interior Ministry
- Procuraduría General de la República (in Spanish} Attorney General
- Office of the President
- Peru
Asia and the Pacific
- Australia
- China
- Japan
- Prime Minister of Japan and his Cabinet
- Japanese Government from Japanguide.com
- JETRO (Japan External Trade Organization) -- a nonprofit, government-related organization.
- New Zealand
- Pakistan
- Taiwan
- Tibet
Europe
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Italy
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Norway
- ODIN : Information from the Government and the Ministries
- norway.no "your gateway to the public sector in Norway
- Northern Ireland
- Russia
- Sweden
- United Kingdom
- Directgov : Web site of the Government of the United Kingdom
- BritainUSA -- from the British Consulate-General, New York
- Official Documents of the United Kindgom
The Middle East
- Iraq
- Israel
- Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs official government Web site
- Israel Government Portal
- Saudi Arabia
(e-reference)