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Subjects
Geography and politics
Detailed coverage of the people and places of the world.
Country fact boxes – Detailed facts, figures, and statistics on 193 different countries, regularly updated.
Articles – Detailed exploration of issues and concepts. Over 900 entries on political topics, including Amnesty International, monism, and abdication.
Also available is a set of over 17,000 gazetteer entries on the world's countries, cities, towns, important tourist or cultural destinations, and geographical features.
Feature essays – The debates over land mines, asylum seekers, and more.
Maps – Helicon's cartographic databases provide extensive coverage of the globe in both physical and political formats, plus a range of thematic maps.
Biographies – Leaders, entrepreneurs, inventors, performers, national heroes, and more. Select from over 30,000 biographies.
Chronologies – Key dates in national and regional history and politics.
Quiz questions – Over 3,000 quiz questions about countries and places of the world, plus over 400 questions about politics.
Multimedia – Photographs from around the globe, country and state flags, and audio files of national anthems for the countries of the world.
Tables – Political facts, figures, and statistics.
Web links – A directory of links to online geographical and political resources.
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