ARGENTINA (ARGENTINA)
Telefonica
The southern Argentina telephone company's white pages
(residential and business listings) and a Yellow Pages
for all of Argentina, by province. In Spanish.
Telecom
Argentina White Pages
White pages for all of Argentina, from the telephone
company that serves Central and Northern Argentina.
Residential numbers only (no businesses), you need to
specify the province. In Spanish
AUSTRALIA (AUSTRALIA)
Telstra
Australia Yellow Pages
Excellent interface, good coverage and very up to date.
Telstra Australia
White Pages
A very good white pages with national coverage.
BELGIUM (BELGIO)
Infobel
Belgian alphabetical directory: 4,000,000 names with
addresses, phone numbers and (where available) email and
URL's.
BERMUDA (BERMUDA)
Bermuda Yellow
Pages
Business listings, with telephone and fax numbers. Search
by classification only. It's basically a straight dump of
the printed phone book, you can see listings only by an
alphabetic sequence of classifications, with no option to
see a list of available classifications first.
BULGARIA (BULGARIA)
Sofia
Directory
Directory of people (not businesses) in Sofia only. In
Bulgarian.
CANADA (CANADA)
Canada411
Canada nationwide (excluding Saskatchewan and Alberta)
alphabetic directory of over 10 million business and
residential (people) listings. No classified (Yellow
Pages) listings. In English and French.
Electric Fingers
Alberta Yellow Pages from Telus. Select by any part of
business name, or by category, for all of Alberta or a
specific area. Returns name, address, phone.
BC Yellow Pages
British Columbia Yellow Pages. Classified, Alphabetic,
addresses, maps, local information.
QCTel Yellow
Pages
Alphabetic and classified directory of businesses in part
of Quebec (mainly around Quebec City and some rural
areas). Mostly in French, the English pages don't work
properly.
Infospace
Toll-free, fax, business and residential numbers from
Canada and the USA, based on Pro-CD's CDROMs. One of the
few north american sources to specifically include a fax
directory, but the fax numbers actually listed are quite
limited.
MTS Internet
Yellow Pages
Covers Manitoba, Canada, businesses. Many entries have
display ads and include fax numbers and some email
addresses.
Sask Yellow
Pages
"Coming Soon" message displayed since January
97, not yet online.
CHILE (CILE)
Chile
Business Directory
Over 60,000 entries, classified, with addresses, phone
and fax. In both English and Spanish.
CHINA (CINA)
Shanghai
Directories
Several business directories for Shanghai. Not complete,
but contains phone and address details for most of the
main companies and organizations.
DENMARK (DANIMARCA)
Kraks Vejviser
Danish Business Directory, includes products, fax
numbers, contact names. In English and Danish.
EGYPT (EGITTO)
Egypt
Companes Profiles
Comprehensive business directory of Egypt, containing
basic information on each company (classifications,
address, phone, fax) and often more, such as the name of
the manager.
FINLAND (FINLANDIA)
Interaktiiviset
Keltaiset Sivut
Yellow Pages for Finland, in English and Finnish. Search
by business name or classification.
FRANCE (FRANCIA)
France
White Pages
Access to the classic Minitel directory. You need to know
the town (or at least Department) where the person lives.
In French and English. Usually takes several minutes for
each request, be patient...
FINLAND (FINLANDIA)
Interaktiiviset
Keltaiset Sivut
Yellow Pages for Finland, in English and Finnish. Search
by business name or classification.
GREECE (GRECIA)
Hellenic
Telephone Directories
Official OTE Greek Yellow Pages, White Pages, and telex
and fax directories. In English and Greek.
INDONESIA (INDONESIA)
Indonesia
Yellow Pages
Complete directory of 150,000 companies in Indonesia,
with phone numbers, fax numbers and addresses. Search by
part of company name or by classification. Also has an
Indonesia web directory. In English.
IRELAND (IRLANDA)
Kompass Ireland
Kompass business directory. Not comprehensive, but like
all Kompass directories breaks businesses down well by
category and has extensive information on each listed
company.
ISRAEL (ISRAELE)
Israel
Yellow Pages
Various Israel directories, some still under development.
In English and Hebrew.
Israel White Pages
The official Israel white pages. Entirely in Hebrew. The
top button on the right gives you the search page.
ITALY (ITALIA)
Pagine
Gialle On Line
Italian Yellow Pages, in Italian. Contains some business
information ("azienda") about each company. If
your web browser doesn't have frames, this site will
appear totally blank to you, as the programmers have
forgotten to allow for non-frames users (what's worse,
they're not actually using the frames for anything except
blank margins!).
LATVIA (LATVIA)
Business
in the Baltic States
Yellow Pages (classified directory) for Latvia, list
companies with their phone numbers, addresses and fax
numbers. In English (some links in Latvian).
LUXENBOURG (LUSSEMBURGO)
Waiss
Saiten
White pages for both businesses and people in Luxembourg.
Includes full addresses, mobile phone numbers, fax
numbers where available. In French.
Giel Saiten
Yellow pages for Luxembourg. In French, although the
title of both this site, and the white pages, are
actually in the local Luxembourg language (closely
related to German).
MALAYSIA (MALESIA)
Telekom
Malaysia
White pages and yellow pages, in English. Watch out for
the 97k graphic on the first page, and the very large
graphics elsewhere (example: a 73k graphic which simply
shows the letters A to Z!). There's no real search tool
here, just links to lists. How not to do a website.
MONACO (MONACO)
Monaco
Telephone Directory
Complete telephone directory for the principality of
Monaco. In French.
NETHERLAND (OLANDA)
Goudengids
Yellow Pages for the Netherlands. Includes full postal
addresses and some fax numbers. In Dutch.
Telefoongids
The official Dutch white pages of both business and
residential numbers, in Dutch. Search by name (naam) and
city (woonplaats), or street (straat), house number
(huisnummer) and city. Press "Zoek Nu!" to
search.
Faxguids
Excellent Fax directory of the Netherlands, seems fairly
comprehensive and current. In five languages: Dutch,
English, Spanish, German and French. Has phone numbers
and addresses as well as fax numbers.
NEW ZEALAND (NUOVA
ZELANDA)
Telecom New
Zealand
Classified and alphabetic listings for businesses, and
alphabetic listings for residential numbers. You need to
specify which of 18 regions in NZ to search, but it's
otherwise a very nice site, quite fast and clearly laid
out.
NORWAY (NORVEGIA)
Telnor
Gulesider
Norway Yellow Pages. Search by category only, for all of
Norway ("hele Norge") or by region. In
Norwegian.
PAKISTAN (PAKISTAN)
Jamal's
Yellow Pages
A good national Yellow Pages, search by any combination
of company name, profession (classification) and
location. Result is name, city, phone number and
classification. In English.
PARAGUAY (PARAGUAY)
Guitel
Digital 1996-97
Alphabetic and classified directories, in Spanish. The
alphabetic listing (Guia Telfonica) has both people and
businesses. The yellow pages (Paginas Amarillas) are
incomplete.
PORTUGAL (PORTOGALLO)
Portugal
Telecom
White Pages and Yellow Pages for Portugal.
ROMANIA (ROMANIA)
Romanian
Yellow Pages
A fairly selective listing, of mainly export businesses
and tourist services. Most listings are in Romania, and
include telephone numbers, addresses, and fax numbers.
Some listings are for other countries such as Romanian
businesses in the US. In English.
RUSSIA (RUSSIA)
The
Traveller's Yellow Pages Online
Good directories of St Petersburg and Moscow, Russia.
Mostly travel-orientated listings (such as hotels and
airlines) but includes other businesses. In English and
Russian.
Moscow
Business Telephone Guide
Contains a good range of companies in Moscow by
categories. In English.
SINGAPORE (SINGAPORE)
Singapore
Phone Book
Official Singapore Phone Book, contains both business and
residential listings. Listings include full address and
(where available) fax numbers. To use this directory you
have to register (for free) to get a password. Does not
have classifications.
SLOVENIA (SLOVENIA)
Telefonski
imenik Slovenije
National Telephone directories from Telekom Slovenije.
Both White Pages (alphabetic) and Yellow Pages
(classified). Includes keyword searching, addresses, fax
numbers, and very impressive java map links. In English,
Slovenian and German.
SPAIN (SPAGNA)
Paginas
Amarillas Multimedia
Yellow Pages for Spain, with more than 1,500,00 entries.
In Spanish.
SWEDEN (SVEZIA)
Gula
Sidorna
Swedish Yellow Pages, in English and Swedish, from Telia.
Has listings by categories and by business name.
SWITZERLAND (SVIZZERA)
Yellow
Pages
Official Swiss Telecom Yellow Pages, in English, German,
French and Italian.
TAIWAN (TAIWAN)
Taiwan
Yellow Pages
Alphabetic manufacturer index, and other listings. Not
very comprehensive. In English.
THAYLAND (THAILANDIA)
Thailand
Directories
Classified directory of businesses in Thailand in
English. Includes other useful Thailand links.
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
(EMIRATI ARABI)
UAE
Yellow Pages
Covering all the United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi, Umm Al
Quwain, Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras Al Khaimah and
Sharjah). Search by classification or name, result
includes address, phone and fax.
Kompass UAE
Kompass business directory for the United Arab Emirates.
You need to register (for free), and then can see only
100 full company records, but still useful if you're
looking into the backround of specific companies.
UNITED KINGDOM (REGNO
UNITO)
InBusiness
Fast, efficient searches for business phone numbers. Can
search entire country by business name, or can limit
search by category, county, town and postcode area.
FreePages
Classified directory, claims to be the largest online
directory in the UK, although for some categories I found
fewer listings here than in EYP. Nice interface. It
searches for listings "near" the place you
specify, sometimes these can be rather far away! Search
by category only.
Electronic Yellow Pages
The UK's electronic yellow pages from British Telecom.
Newly redesigned, now allows searches by start of
business name, as well as by classification. Search with
a location of "UK" if you are unsure. Does not
include businesses in non-BT offshore areas, such as
Jersey, Guernsey and Isle of Man. Generally fast, but
does seem to have occasional really long (2-3 min)
pauses.
UK
White Pages
Finally there is a UK residential listing online, from
the US company Infospace. Presumably not from official
sources (British Telecom have the copyright on the
listings in the UK), but seems pretty complete. Listings
of both businesses and people.
UNITED STATES (STATI
UNITI)
BigBook
TOP CHOICE: Complete Yellow Pages (and business white
pages) for the US, with the added feature of a map
interface that can plot an address to street level, or
select phone numbers in a mapped area. Free home page
offered to US businesses. Has "Personal Address
Book" and "voting" features for registered
users.
Zip2
As a nationwide Yellow Pages with maps it is excellent,
although you have to specify the state for each search.
You can search by company name, or by classification.
There are also searches by mapped area, and by distance
from a location. One unique and very useful feature is
door-to-door driving directions between any two places in
a metro area, either as text or a zoomable map.
US West
US West's nationwide yellow pages. Includes access to a
nationwide white pages directory for businesses and
people from four11. Reverse search, for business numbers
only.
BigYellow Nynex
Interactive Yellow Pages
BigYellow: national USA yellow pages, plus a few www
links.
Yellow Pages Online
US nationwide Yellow Pages with around 18 million
listings. Has a brand name search in addition to the
usual classified and alphabetic searches. Full addresses
with ZIP codes, and some links to web sites.
Onvillage yellow
Pages
Another US national yellow pages. You can only search
within a specified state. Lists of entries for a category
only shows names and addresses, you have to click on each
name seperatly to find the phone numbers, which seems a
strange priority for a phone directory. Has the usual
"add you own entry" options.
GTE Superpages
US National Yellow Pages, plus a web directory. Includes
zoomable street maps.
YellowNet
National directory, allows nationwide search by category
and by name. The name search displays anything containing
the search string in any position, not just at the start
of the name.
True Yellow
A fairly basic US nationwide yellow pages.
Switchboard USA
White Pages
Switchboard, a complete national directory for both
private numbers and business numbers. Also has business
search vy category.
Yahoo
People Search
Find people anywhere in the US by their name.
Infospace
Toll-free, fax, business and residential numbers from the
USA and Canada, based on Pro-CD's CDROMs. One of the few
US sources to specifically include a fax directory, but
the fax numbers actually listed are quite limited. Also
has "blue pages" (government agency listings).
Lookup USA
Another national directory of people and businesses, and
a classified directory. The unique feature here is credit
ratings for most of the 10 million business listings. Has
street maps also.
Database
America
Has a US nationwide telephone directory and reverse
search (search by phone number) for people only. Other
(commercial) lists available, and maps.
WhoWhere
Business and residential numbers for the USA, search by
name and place. Unusually, their search pages are also
available in French and Spanish.
pc411
search and reverse-search (search by phone numbers) for
residential numbers in the US. From the Pro-CD CD-Roms.
Part of a commercial service, but basic lookup of a
number seems currently to be free.
Infospace
Fax numbers from the USA and Canada, based on Pro-CD's
CDROMs. One of the few US sources to specifically include
a fax directory, but the fax numbers actually listed are
quite limited.
The Internet 800 Directory
Around 200,000 toll-free numbers, includes non-AT & T
customers.
AT & T Directory of
800 numbers
Toll Free numbers (only numbers connected by AT & T).
Yellow Pages on the
Internet
Only covers Seattle, Portland and New Orleans areas so
far, plus a few places in Florida, but has a nice
interface and many ways to search, including search by
phone number, and links to a map server.
YUGOSLAVIA (YUGOSLAVIA)
Yugoslavia.com
People and Businesses in Yugoslavia (Serbia and
Montenegro). In English, very slow.
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