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The all new CountryReports

Years in the making every country profile has been rebuilt. New content areas Articles, Global Content, Activities, Lessons, and study guides sit alongside new animated recipes, games, and an enhanced member portal. Here is everything that ships with the new site.

Brand new

A fresh foundation for everything you do on the site.

  • Concept maps

    Interactive node-and-link maps that turn articles and global topics into a visual web of people, places, events, and ideas — click any node to follow a connection or jump back to the source page.

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  • Refreshed interface

    Cleaner typography, calmer spacing, and a navy + gold palette that reads well on every screen size. Built mobile-first.

  • Accessibility tools

    A floating widget with ten controls — text size, contrast, dyslexia-friendly font, link highlighting, link underlines, motion reduction, cursor size, focus outline, line height, and color filters. Web Speech read-aloud on long articles.

  • Five languages

    English, Spanish, French, Simplified Chinese, and Hindi. Country names and structural text are localized; premium articles render in the language you bought.

  • Compare Countries

    Rebuilt charts with Apache ECharts. Compare any two countries across population, GDP, age structure, geography, and more.

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A bigger library

More countries, more depth, more ways to read.

  • 266 country profiles, over 13 in depth topics

    Every sovereign nation has a root profile plus twelve focused sub-pages — history, government, geography, economy, people, religion, recipes, maps, photos, news, timeline, and interesting facts.

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  • Deep factsheets

    Multi-page factsheets deliver concise content per country. All new way of studying a country.

  • 1,564 animated recipes

    Step-by-step animated cooking guides for traditional dishes from over a hundred countries — paired with the written ingredients and directions that have always been there.

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  • 926 articles, blog posts, and global topics

    Long-form articles for depth, blog posts for quick reads, and global topics that span countries — climate, religion, world health, world languages.

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  • Region pages

    Nine region hubs — including the Middle East as its own region — gather their constituent countries plus territories into a single editorial view.

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  • Glossary

    Over a thousand cross-linked terms tied back to the country pages where they matter — every entry is its own indexable page.

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  • 286 Videos in library

    A unified video page that pulls together CountryReports embeds and curated YouTube content. Free for everyone.

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Play — 516 activities

Browser-playable games to test what you have learned.

  • Word Search

    Hidden-word puzzles built from country names, capitals, landmarks, and culture vocabulary. Solo, untimed.

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  • Crosswords

    Country-themed crossword grids that test vocabulary alongside facts. Solo, untimed.

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  • Cryptograms

    Decode quotes and facts about each country one letter at a time. Solo, untimed.

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  • Flash Cards

    Memorize flags, capitals, and key facts with spaced-repetition decks per country or region.

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  • Practice Exams

    Question banks aligned to the AP Human Geography, AP European History, and AP US History CEDs. Solo, timed.

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  • Country Match

    Pair flags, capitals, currencies, and outlines under the clock. Solo, timed.

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  • Trivia

    Open trivia rounds drawing from every country profile. Play untimed or against the clock.

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  • Geography Bee

    A live multiplayer round for classrooms. Everyone sees the same question; the fastest correct answer wins the round.

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  • Country Spelling

    Hear a country name and spell it before the timer expires. Three difficulty modes.

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  • Flag Frenzy

    Identify world flags against the clock. Three difficulty modes; Hard mode picks visually similar decoys so wrong choices look plausibly close.

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  • Where in the World?

    Guess the country from a handful of photos. Pick from four options in Easy and Medium, or drop a pin on the world map in Hard.

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Lessons & AP guides

Standards-aligned classroom content for teachers and self-study.

  • K-12 lessons

    Lessons aligned to NCSS, C3 Framework, and CCSS standards. Each lesson cites national codes first, then state where applicable.

  • AP Human Geography

    All seven units, sixty-four lessons. Paraphrased Learning Objectives and Essential Knowledge tied to the College Board CED Fall 2023 V.1.

  • AP European History

    Nine units, eighty-eight topics. Built to the official AP Euro CED Fall 2023 V.1. Quarterly version-checks keep the codes current.

  • AP US History

    Nine units, 105 topics, 303 Key Concept codes, eight themes, six historical thinking skills. Live and structured to the official CED.

Your account

A real portal for your membership, settings, and history.

  • Member portal

    A dedicated account site at account.countryreports.org. Manage your membership, change your password, set your preferred language, and update marketing preferences.

  • Page-view stats

    See which pages your account has used, broken down by month over the last thirteen months. Useful for institutions reporting on engagement.

  • Country affinity

    Mark countries you are a Fan of, From, with Heritage in, have Visited, or that are on your Bucket list. The choices feed an aggregated community leaderboard.

  • Manage user access

    Institutional accounts can add as many co-administrators as they need and provision separate content-user logins for students, faculty, and staff. Each role sees a tailored view, and access can be revoked at any time without losing the institution's membership or history.

Community

Connect with other readers and teachers.

  • Community leaderboard

    See which countries the CountryReports community feels at home in, dreams of visiting, traces their roots to, and remembers their journeys through.

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  • Discussion forum

    A moderated forum for institutional account holders to compare classroom uses, share lesson tweaks, and ask one another questions. Real names, no anonymous posts.

For institutions

Tools schools, libraries, and resellers have asked for.

  • IP whitelist authentication

    Add your campus IP ranges to your institution profile. Students and staff inside the range get the premium experience with no login prompt.

  • Per-institution single sign-on

    Bring your own SSO and we will wire it up so existing accounts work directly with CountryReports. Embedded-URL auth for LMS integrations is also live.

Notice something missing, or have feedback on the new site? Reach us through the contact form linked in the footer. The site keeps growing and your input shapes what gets built next.

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