COUNTRIES A-Z

COUNTRIES A-Z

We're delighted to say this huge area is now officially open! linking together geographically not only the different areas on the site here but also linking to relevant country statistics (CIA world factbook) as well as identifying country internet codes, dialling codes, and languages spoken in each country [for lists of countries where English is spoken, where French is spoken, etc. see our free dual-language translation worksheets area].

You'll see from the massive index-to-countries below that various colours are used - these aren't random! but instead chosen so you can easily locate countries and territories in the same geographical region (eg Eurasia has different greens for countries in Europe, Asia and the Middle East; different shades of orange are used for Central, North and South America, etc.)

Each linked "country" or "territory" entry has links to the relevant continent "schools" page (which is linked to government websites, education departments and local school-nets wherever found); the linked "projects" pages (projects helping kids) have links to continent maps and the countries pages themselves show the capital cities for countries and territories, as well as linking to resources for currency conversion, pictures of banknotes, latitude and longitude of capital cities, and a huge range of maps of different kinds.

We've aimed to make this whole resource as comprehensive and "specific" as possible - search engines are a wonderful invention but you can search a long time for a particular resource ..... and find a lot of stuff you maybe didn't want, along the way. One of the overall aims of the whole Project HappyChild site is to provide a giant "interchange" (a bit like Spaghetti Junction, maybe!) where you can find links to the *specific* information you're looking for. And maybe provide parents with an overall framework where they can easily find good quality information on anything they need to explain.

One of the hardest things as a parent, is not knowing how to answer a question! but together with our index to "free educational resources worldwide", the "Potted Learning" pages and the new "how we got here" page, the Countries pages should help to "fill in the gaps" so that there's a proper starting point for whatever parents - and kids! - need to find out.

All the "countries index pages" are interlinked - you can either work from the A-Z of countries above, or choose a "starting letter" from the A - Z links across top and bottom of all countries pages ..... and select from the links you need, when you get there. Or you might want to stop off and find "your age in seconds", how long till your next birthday, the weather forecast for your area, or the latest on volcano eruptions, along the way ....