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 ...
and Arctic oceans including Newfoundland and the Arctic islands north of the mainland and sharing a nearly 4000 mile (more than 6400 kilometer) border with the U.S.; an independent state within the Commonwealth of Nations; capital Ottawa area 3,855,103 square miles (9,984,670 square kilomete...
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...
• Area: 415,598 square miles (1,076,395 sq km) 2) Quebec • Population: 7,744,530 • Capital:Quebec City • Area: 595,391 square miles (1,542,056 sq km) 3)British Columbia • Population: 4,428,356 • Capital: Victoria ...
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 ...
Official Name:Canada Size:35,881,659 square miles Capital:Ottawa Official Languages: English, French Currency:Canadian Dollar Climate:Canada’s is a vast land with varied climates. The west coast is rainy and temperate, with temperatures averaging 45-72 throughout the year. The area in the sout...
8. Canada's Hudson Bay is the largest bay in the world, with a surface area of 1,230,000 square kilometres. 9. Native Canadians, called First Nations people, have lived in Canada for thousands of years, as have the Inuit people. Many Canadians today are descended from settlers who came...
extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the rarely-traveled 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...