Canada is a vast and rugged land. From north to south it spans more than half the Northern Hemisphere.
Babine, Stuart, Shuswap, Quesnel, and François, which range from 90 to 200 square miles (230 to 520 square km) in area, are important salmon-spawning lakes. The Arrow and Kootenay lakes are important as storage reservoirs for hydroelectric plants. Soils About two-thirds of the land area...
Canada's oldest national park, Banff, encompasses 2,564 square miles of mountainous terrain, including glaciers, coniferous forests and alpine landscapes. Hiking trails wind through breathtaking scenery, while ski and snowboarding resorts provide world-class facilities. Wildlife enthusiasts can spot iconi...
Canada makes up two-fifths of the North American continent and has about 3,900,000 square miles of land. However, only 38 million people live in Canada as of 2022, despite having a similar landmass to Europe, which has a population of 746 million as of 2022. Map of Canada...
A vast transitional zone, thetaiga shield,comprisingsome 500,000 square miles (1,300,000 square km) of mixed boreal and tundra growth, connects the northern forest and the tundra region. Generally, the trees in this subarctic zone, with its cold, dry climate, are small and of little commer...
Area: 9,976,185 square kilometers (3,851,809 square miles) Highest point on mainland: Mount Logan (5,959 meters/19,551 feet) Lowest point on land: Sea level Hemispheres: Northern and Western Time zone: Newfoundland: 8:30 A.M. = noon GMT; New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward ...
TheCanadian population is distributed very unevenly. The wilderness of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut make up about 60% of its land area but only about 60,000 people live there. Most inhabitants live close to the US-Canada border where the main urban areas such as Toronto, Vancouver, ...
Canada is the country with the largest total area; Russia is the only country with more landmass (approximately 2.8 million square miles). Even though Canada isn’t number one in total size, it does proudly claim other top ranks. Canada is home to the world’s biggest forest region, the ...
Arctic Circle. With nearly 10 million square kilometers of land space, Canada is the world’s second-largest country (after Russia) by total area, and the southern border it shares with its lone neighbor, the United States, is the world’s longest land border shared by the same two ...
Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world's second-largest country by total area and the fourth-largest country by land area. ...