A full-text database with detailed descriptions and statistics on thousands of countries, cities, mountains, rivers, and every other kind of political area or geographic feature.
A University of Texas Web site, it provides a well-organized collection of historical and current maps worldwide. All maps available on this server are in the public domain, and may be freely downloaded and copied.
This
collection has over 22,000 maps and images online. The collection
focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North American and South American
maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the World,
Europe, Asia, and Africa are also represented.