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This We Know
For geographically relevant information, ThisWeKnow provides one use case for the data sets. Users can enter the name or ZIP code of any community and get details on all kinds of factors, from violent crime to companies releasing pollutants. Use This We Know to explore U.S. Government Data About Your Community.
iCityData.com: City Data Search
iCityData is a simple site where you can get demographic information on cities throughout the United States,and also compare cities.
NCES Kids' Zone Home Page
National Center for Education Statistics Kids' Zone: Users can look up any school, college, or university, public or private, to get information like student-teacher ratios, class sizes, and tuition costs. In addition to demographic information, the NCES Kids’ Zone has tools to help kids create their own graphs using their own data, and games and quizzes in several subject areas.
U.S. Census Bureau Maps and Cartographic Resources
The U.S. Census Bureau has downloadable maps that are available online for classroom use.
LocalCensus.com
LocalCensus.com is a completely free website that provides a plethora of statistical information about the United States of America and all of its cities, zip codes, and counties. LocalCensus.com also provides business listings from a wide variety of categories throughout most cities within the United States of America.
Show World and Show USA
Show World and Show USA are mapping and data visualization tools with numerous current data categories. The site also includes lesson plans for high school classrooms.
GeoHive: Global Statistics
Welcome to GeoHive, a site with geopolitical data, statistics on the human population, Earth and more. The main kind of data you can find here is population statistics of regions, countries, provinces and cities. Next to that there are some statistics on economic factors like wealth, infrastructure; statistics on natural phenomena.
ZIPskinny
ZIPskinny - All you have to do is put your Zip Code in and you wouldn’t believe the info you can extract about your area. From how many married, single, divorced to How many high schools, colleges and the money people make. It shows how different our neighborhoods actually are.
SHOW®/USA
Show USA is a great map service produced by the same people that brought us Show World. Show USA has five categories of data from which you can choose a data set to be represented on a map. The regions and states on the map change size based on the data set selected.
The Miniature Earth
Miniature Earth: slideshow that uses statistics to reduce the world to 100 inhabitants, and shows how that plays out demographically, who uses what resources, etc.
Zip Code Census Dashboard
The Zip Code Census Dashboard, a very simple and informative site that shows you demographic data for any zip code you enter.
Up2Maps
See and Publish your research data on Thematic Maps & Share results with the World Community
Worldmapper
WorldMapper is a collection of world maps that allows viewers to see various types of information in a graphic way
Intute: World Guide
Intute World Guide offers a series of guides for over 270 countries and territories. These include features, demographics, geography data, interactive world maps, satellite photos, scrollable city images and links to resources about each country within the Intute database. You can even compare data between countries.
Countries of the World
Geography, maps, flags, history, and more — FactMonster.com
The Association of Religion Data Archives
The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) strives to democratize access to the best data on religion.
Collection of quantitative survey data on churches and church membership, religious professionals, and religious groups (data gathered and provided by Penn State and other educational institutions)
International Data Base (IDB)
World Population, country population, and more from the US Census Bureau.
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