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For information about maps and other geographic resources at the Library of Congress, consult the Web site of its Geography and Map Reading Room.
CNN.com Weather (http://weather.cnn.com/weather/forecast.jsp#)
Select a location (Europe), then a country (Luxembourg) and click on a list of cities for weather forecasts.
National Geographic (http://www.nationalgeographic.com)
Search on Luxembourg.
Digital Gazetteers
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). GEOnet Names Server (http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/)
A sophisticated database including over 5 million place names worldwide. Click on Luxembourg from Country Files to view a single compressed zip file that contains the entire country files dataset. Records give the name of each location or feature, variant spellings, latitude and longitude, and additional numeric data. Searches may focus on a variety of elements, such as populated place, administrative region, type of area, vegetation, and fresh- and saltwater features. Searches may also be limited to areas demarcated by two lines each of latitude and longitude.
Directory of Cities, Towns, and Regions in Luxembourg (http://www.fallingrain.com/world/LU)
Links to alphabetical listing of places in districts in Luxembourg with information on latitude, longitude, elevation, and population estimates. Also links to maps and information on airports and aviation waypoints.
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online (TGN) (http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting%5Fresearch/vocabularies/tgn/index.html)
A structured, world-coverage vocabulary containing around 912,000 records, including 1.1 million names, place types, coordinates, and descriptive notes, focusing on places important for the study of art and architecture. Search on Luxembourg.
Contemporary Maps
University of Texas at Austin. Perry Castañeda Library Map Collection: Europe Maps (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/europe.html#L)
Click on Luxembourg to view two maps of the country.
Mappy -- Guide routier (http://fr.mappy.com)
Provides searchable interactive maps of European countries.
Agriculture
AGRICOLA - The National Agricultural
Library's Catalog and Article Citation Database (http://agricola.nal.usda.gov)
The U.S. National Agricultural Library makes available two important databases: 1) its online catalog, which reflects the library's holdings of books, periodicals and other materials; and 2) its subject-indexed database of periodical articles, reflecting the contents of agricultural journals world-wide from 1971 to the present. More than 600 article citations pertain to Luxembourg or come from agricultural periodicals based there.
USGS
Minerals Information - Europe and Central Asia (http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/country/europe.html)
The United States Geological Survey provides lengthy annual reports on the mineral resources of most countries throughout the world. The annual reports for many countries are archived beginning in the mid 1990s.
Timber Fact Sheets
in Europe and North America (http://www.unece.org/timber/fra/welcome.htm)
The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe provides statistics on forests and forest industries in all European countries.
Environment
EarthTrends (http://earthtrends.wri.org)
An environmental information portal for researching global topics, such as water resources, climate and atmosphere, population and health, energy resources, and agriculture and food. Allows users to gather information from the searchable database, display data tables, view country profiles, or select maps with global, regional, and country-level environmental information.
Environmental Issues (http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/)
Describes environmental and energy issues in most countries world-wide. Maintained by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Portail de l'Environnement (http://www.environnement.public.lu)
A governmental portal concerning the environment in Luxembourg. In French.
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