Arikah's Travel Portal, Encyclopedia, Travel Guides & Resources

Welcome to Arikah, a global travel portal which offers a fast, free online encyclopedia, up-to-date travel guides as well as other proprietory information of interest to the general public, researchers, students, tourists & travelers.

Arikah has been especially optimised for use with low bandwidth dial-up connections in order to improve access speeds for users from remote locations and developing nations.

At Arikah, we take great care in selecting information for this site and we appreciate your comments (contact page) regarding inconsistencies, possible copyright violations or dissatisfaction with any of our partners.

We hope that you will find Arikah an indispensable reference resource. Please bookmark this site as it is frequently updated.

Some Of The Features

Arikah utilises a fast external 3rd party search facility to quickly find relevant results to your query or alternatively you can select your destination or topic of interest through these detailed subject lists or through the category listings.

Detailed Authority Lists & Biographies

Arikah has detailed lists with specific information on subjects such as Airlines, Authors, Biographies, Cathedrals, Cemeteries, Historical Anniversaries, Incumbents, Islands, Newspapers, People, People by Nationality, Political parties, Popular Tourist Regions, Railway Companies, Reference Tables, Timelines and Transport Topics.

World, Country & City History

Do research on Africa, The Americas, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Eurasia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America, South Asia as well as World History, Country History, Region History, General History, Ancient History, Diplomacy, European History, Military History, Modern History, Historiography and Timelines.

World, Country & City Geography & Locations

You can find geographical information on Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America as well as Economic Geography, Environmental Geography, General Geography, Human Geography, Physical Geography, Cities, Climate, Countries, Land Forms, Maps, Parks, Towns and Villages.

Information indexed by Country & Nationality

As well as information grouped by specific countries and nationalities such as Cities, Country calling codes, Country name etymologies, Country specific Transportation and Education by country, Colleges and Universities by Country, Maps, Music by Region, National Anthems, National Capitals, National Emblems, National Flags, Official languages, Place Name Adjectives, Politics by country and Common family names, State mottos and Voting Systems by Nation.

You can also do research through Agriculture, Archaeology, Architecture, Culture, Demographics, Economics, Education, Entertainment, Ethnic groups, Festivals, Film , Finance, Gender, Government, Public & Other Holidays, International relations, Language, Law, Mass media, Movements, Museums, Mythology, Organization, People, Performing arts, Politics, Popular Culture, Psychology, Radio, Religion, Sexology, Social Science, Society, Sports, Television, Theatre, Tradition, Tourism and War.

Additional References

You can consult general reference resources such as Academia, Documents, Fundamental, How-tos, Knowledge, Reference, Reference Tables and References by Dates or investigate individual authorithy articles such as Abstractions, Algebra, Anthropology, Arithmetic, Astronomy, Chemistry, Computer science, Earth science, Ecology, Equations, Geometry, Heuristic, History of Science, Information Science, Logic, Analysis, Proofs, Mathematics, Measurement, Medicine, Nature, Numbers, Physics, Philosophy, Science, Scientific method, Scientist, Space, Systems theory, Statistics, Theorems and, of course, Trigonometry.

And if you can not find it there, check out these articles on Animation, Automobile, Biotechnology, Business, Computing, Communication, Electronics, Engineering, Information Technology, Internet, Manufacturing, Nanotechnology, Nuclear Technology, Technology, Telecommunication, Tool, Transport or Vehicle.

And, if you still can't find it anywhere, then it must surely be in the list of Unsolved Problems!

The free on-line encyclopedia is available in Dutch, English, German, French, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. Other language encyclopediae will be available in the near future.

** New ** The free, 2007 Editions of the on-line Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam Travel Guides are now available in English. Other Travel Guides will be available in the near future.