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world-calendar.com is a web-based perpetual calendar. It contains holidays of over 75 countries and holidays of four religions: Christian, Islamic, Jewish, and Orthodox. In addition, it includes four other calendrical systems, Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew, and Islamic, all of which are relative to Gregorian

This is a list of flags by country, of which there are 203, giving an overview of states around the world with information on the extent of their sovereignty. It is arranged alphabetically. It includes both states widely recognized to be de jure sovereign and states that claim de jure sovereignty and exercise de facto control over some territory, but which are not generally recognised.

In addition to the arcive from the BBC this resource from Wikipedia also provides further reading a links to religion, culture and customs.

It is always important to understand and respect the culture and religion of the travelling area. This un-biased mini-site from the BBC provides a good starting point.