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Countries, islands, and more
We have place pages for all
the countries of the world, as well as, many other
interesting places. We believe you will find using our
World Places section a pleasant
and worthwhile experience. We have no pop-ads and our other
ads, with few exceptions, are to the sides of the
information we present.
We like it that way and think
you will too.
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Place Notes:
Places include all the countries and
territories of the world, as well as, other travel destinations you might
have heard about or may be interested in if you are an adventurous soul. The fact that we list a place,
such as a disputed territory, does not mean we are making a political
statement. We just want to help people learn about the place in case
they want to visit it.
External links always open in
a new window.
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Place Names. The common name for a place is used instead of the official name because that is
the one you will most likely know. If a place has changed its name in the last 20-30
years, you can usually search by the former name using our
A-Z Place Finder in the
left column or above.
Also, some places
consist of a combined name or are commonly known by two different names. You can
usually search by
either name.
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Affiliations.
We are an affiliate of Expedia,
Amazon.com and some other travel and language websites.
A complete list is on our Village Shop page. However,
we believe in helping you find the travel and language
information you need regardless of any affiliations. We
research and find both popular and other useful web sites
with good information to help you plan your trip. We also
believe in getting you directly to information on other
websites and are usually able to drop you off at their page
with the information.
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The 3-Click
Rule. We are a firm believer in the 3-click rule
and it is unfortunate that it wasn't included in our
American Bill of
Rights! It should
take you no more than 3 clicks to get anywhere on our
website. Please let us know if we break that rule.
If there are problems with a page or you have ideas for additional links, please
send an email to the Webmaster using our
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Guide To Our Place Pages |
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- Links To Travel Guides and
Travel Agencies. Our place pages will link you directly to the
page on some popular travel guide sites for the place. We have
our standard set of travel sites and we usually try to find some
travel sites in English that originate from the country itself. We
also link to some popular travel agencies. External links always
open in a new window.
- Links To City Pages.
Each place page has a link to our city page for the capital, and
sometimes for other major cities in the country.
- Links To Language Pages.
Each place page has a link to our language page for each major
language spoken there. Our language pages have links to
websites that offer free online-lessons, translation dictionaries
and automatic translation websites. We also link to some sites that
offer commercial language products such as phrasebooks, dictionaries
and language learning software.
- Place Toolbars. As
shown below, a place page may have one of two types of Place
Toolbars, or both of them or may not have a toolbar at all. We
plan to eventually have both toolbars on all our place pages. These
toolbars make it easy to find essential tourist information for the
place and also to go there virtually sometimes via a webcam or a 360
degree virtual photographic tour.
- Location Map.
The location map will
take you to Encarta's map of the country along with it's neighboring
countries so you can get some idea of where it is in a region.
If you have the time, it is always interesting to visit neighboring
countries especially if they are not so well known.
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Sample Place Toolbars
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We usually link you to the page at each of
the following travel sites with information on this place:
Expedia, Encarta, DMOZ Open Directory, About.com,
Travelocity and Lonely Planet. The toolbars, when present,
have links to more travel information. |
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