North America

Canada

Canada is the world's second largest country by area, behind only . Nicknamed the Great White North, Canada is renowned for its vast landscapes of outstanding natural beauty and its multicultural heritage.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Toronto and Vancouver.

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is a diverse, energetic and liveable city, home to many tourist attractions, and seemingly endless dining, shopping and entertainment possibilities.

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occupies an enviable spot in the world. Blessed with miles of coastline, lush vegetation and crowned by the Mountains, it's hard to be there and not stop at some point and be amazed by what you see.

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is the largest city in the Canadian province of . While Quebec City is the political capital, is the cultural and economic centre, and the main entry point to the province.

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Explore places such as Quebec and Ontario.

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is a province in Canada, the largest in size and second only to in population. French is the first language of a majority of Quebecois and the sole official language of the province, making it the only Canadian province that is officially monolingual in French.

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is Canada's second-largest province, and the most populous, with more than 14 million inhabitants. It is home to the Canadian capital city of , and , which is 's capital and Canada's largest city.

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The are a region in the centre of Canada, made up of three provinces: , , and . Though the word "prairie" means grassland, this region also contains mountains, hills, lakes, shoreline, and metropolitan cities.

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is the westernmost province of Canada, between the Pacific Ocean, and the . BC has great scenery along the coast and inland, and is a rewarding destination for outdoor life, especially downhill snowsports and wilderness backpacking.

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, also known as the Atlantic Provinces, consists of , , and in eastern Canada.

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The North of Canada consists of three territories: , the , and . They extend into the Arctic, and have just over 100,000 inhabitants spread across a land area larger than .

Canada

Latitude of center
56° north
Longitude of center
-101° or 101° west
Population
37,000,000
Area
9,984,670 km² (3,855,103 miles²)
Elevation
292 metres (958 feet)
Capital
Currency
Dollar (CAD)
Phone code
.ca
Internet domain
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Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
6251999
Wiki­data ID
Q16
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Canada” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Канада”
  • Achinese: “Kanada”
  • Adyghe: “Канадэ”
  • Afrikaans: “Kanada”
  • Akan: “Kanada”
  • Albanian: “Kanada”
  • Albanian: “Kanadaja”
  • Amharic: “ካናዳ”
  • Amis: “Canada”
  • Amis: “Kanata”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Καναδᾶς”
  • Angika: “कनाडा”
  • Arabic: “كندا”
  • Aragonese: “Canadá”
  • Armenian: “Կանադա”
  • Arpitan: “Canada”
  • Assamese: “কানাডা”
  • Asturian: “Canadá”
  • Atayal: “Canada”
  • Atikamekw: “Kanata Aski”
  • Atikamekw: “Kanata”
  • Avaric: “Канада”
  • Aymara: “Kanada”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kanada”
  • Balinese: “Kanada”
  • Bambara: “Kanada”
  • Bashkir: “Канада”
  • Basque: “Kanada”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Kanada”
  • Batak Toba: “Kanada”
  • Bavarian: “Kanada”
  • Belarusian: “Канада”
  • Bengali: “কানাডা”
  • Betawi: “Kanada”
  • Bhojpuri: “कनाडा”
  • Bhojpuri: “कॅनडा”
  • Bhojpuri: “कॅनाडा”
  • Bhojpuri: “कैनडा”
  • Bhojpuri: “कैनेडा”
  • Bishnupriya: “কানাডা”
  • Bislama: “Kanada”
  • Bosnian: “Kanada”
  • Breton: “Kanada”
  • Bulgarian: “Канада”
  • Burmese: “Canada”
  • Burmese: “ကနေဒါ”
  • Burmese: “ကနေဒါနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Canadà”
  • Cebuano: “Canada”
  • Cebuano: “Kanada”
  • Central Bikol: “Canada”
  • Central Bikol: “Kanada”
  • Central Kanuri: “Canada”
  • Central Kurdish: “کانەدا”
  • Central Kurdish: “کەنەدا”
  • Chamorro: “Canada”
  • Chavacano: “Canada”
  • Chechen: “Канада”
  • Cherokee: “ᎨᎾᏓ”
  • Cheyenne: “Canada”
  • Chinese: “Canada”
  • Chinese: “Jiānádà”
  • Chinese: “加拿大”
  • Chinese: “北村之國”
  • Chinese: “坎拿大”
  • Chinese: “村之国”
  • Chinese: “村国”
  • Church Slavic: “Канада”
  • Chuvash: “Канада”
  • Cornish: “Kanada”
  • Corsican: “Canada”
  • Corsican: “Canadà”
  • Cree: “ᑳᓇᑕ”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Kanada”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Kánada”
  • Croatian: “Kanada”
  • Czech: “Kanada”
  • Dagbani: “Canada”
  • Danish: “Canada”
  • Dhivehi: “ކެނެޑާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kanada”
  • Dotyali: “क्यानाडा”
  • Dutch: “Canada”
  • Dzongkha: “ཀེ་ན་ཌ་”
  • Dzongkha: “ཀེ་ན་ཌ།”
  • Dzongkha: “ཀེ་ན་ཌ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Канада”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كندا”
  • Erzya: “Канада Мастор”
  • Esperanto: “Kanado”
  • Estonian: “Kanada”
  • Ewe: “Canada nutome”
  • Ewe: “Canada”
  • Ewe: “Kanada nutome”
  • Ewe: “Kanada”
  • Extremaduran: “Canadá”
  • Farefare: “Canada”
  • Faroese: “Kanada”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Canada”
  • Fijian: “Kenada”
  • Finnish: “Kanada”
  • Fon: “Canada”
  • Fon: “Kanadatò”
  • French: “Canada”
  • French: “le Canada”
  • Friulian: “Canadà”
  • Fulah: “Kanada”
  • Fulah: “Kanadaa”
  • Gagauz: “Kanada”
  • Galician: “Canadá”
  • Galician: “O Canadá”
  • Gan Chinese: “加拿大”
  • Ganda: “Kanada”
  • Georgian: “კანადა”
  • German: “Kanada”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Canada (country)”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Canada”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Commonwealth of Canada”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Dominion of Canada”
  • Gilaki: “کانادا”
  • Goan Konkani: “Canada”
  • Goan Konkani: “कॅनडा”
  • Goan Konkani: “ಕೆನಡಾ”
  • Gorontalo: “Kanada”
  • Gothic: “𐌺𐌰𐌽𐌰𐌳𐌰”
  • Greek: “Καναδάς”
  • Guarani: “Kanada”
  • Guarani: “Kanatã”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Kanada”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Kananda”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Kannanda”
  • Gujarati: “કેનેડા”
  • Haitian: “Kanada”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kâ-nâ-thai”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Khà-na-tá”
  • Hausa: “Kanada”
  • Hawaiian: “Kanakā”
  • Hebrew: “קנדה”
  • Hindi: “कनाडा”
  • Hungarian: “Kanada”
  • Iban: “Kanada”
  • Icelandic: “Kanada”
  • Ido: “Kanada”
  • Igbo: “Kanada”
  • Igbo: “Kánada”
  • Iloko: “Canada”
  • Iloko: “Kanada”
  • Inari Sami: “Kanada”
  • Indonesian: “Kanada”
  • Ingush: “КIаьнадмохк”
  • Ingush: “Канада”
  • Interlingua: “Canada”
  • Interlingue: “Canada”
  • Inuktitut: “ᑲᓇᑕ”
  • Inupiaq: “Kanada”
  • Inupiaq: “Kanata”
  • Irish: “Ceanada”
  • Italian: “Canada”
  • Italian: “CDN”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Kianada”
  • Japanese: “カナダ”
  • Japanese: “キャナダ”
  • Japanese: “加奈陀”
  • Javanese: “Kanada”
  • Javanese: “Kanadha”
  • Javanese: “Kanadhah”
  • Kabardian: “Канадэ”
  • Kabiyè: “Kanadaa”
  • Kabuverdianu: “Kanadá”
  • Kabyle: “Kanada”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Kanada”
  • Kalaallisut: “Canada”
  • Kalmyk: “Канадин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಉತ್ತರ ಬ್ರಿಟಿಷ್ ಅಮೇರಿಕ”
  • Kannada: “ಕೆನಡಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Kanada”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Канада”
  • Kashmiri: “کینَڈا”
  • Kashmiri: “کینَڑا”
  • Kashubian: “Kanada”
  • Kazakh: “Канада”
  • Khmer: “កាណាដា”
  • Kikuyu: “Canada”
  • Kikuyu: “Kanada”
  • Kinaray-A: “Kanada”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Kanada”
  • Kirghiz: “Канада”
  • Komering: “Kanada”
  • Komi: “Канада”
  • Kongo: “Kanada”
  • Korean: “카나다”
  • Korean: “캐나다”
  • Kotava: “Kanada”
  • Kurdish: “Kanada”
  • Kurdish: “کانەدا”
  • Ladin: “Canada”
  • Ladino: “Kanada”
  • Lak: “Канада”
  • Lao: “ການາດາ”
  • Lao: “ແຄນາດາ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດການາດາ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດແຄນນາດາ”
  • Latgalian: “Kanada”
  • Latin: “Canada”
  • Latvian: “Kanāda”
  • Lezghian: “Канада”
  • Ligurian: “Canada”
  • Limburgan: “Canada”
  • Lingala: “Kanada”
  • Lingala: “Kanadá”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Canada”
  • Literary Chinese: “Canada”
  • Literary Chinese: “加拿大”
  • Literary Chinese: “坎拿大”
  • Lithuanian: “Kanada”
  • Livvi: “Kanuadu”
  • Lojban: “kadnygu’e”
  • Lombard: “Canada”
  • Low German: “Canada”
  • Low German: “Kanada”
  • Low German: “Kannada”
  • Low German: “Kanneda”
  • Low German: “Kannede”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Kanada”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Kanada”
  • Lule Sami: “Canáhta”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kanada”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Canada”
  • Macedonian: “Канада”
  • Madurese: “Kanada”
  • Maithili: “क्यानाडा”
  • Malagasy: “Kanada”
  • Malay: “Kanada”
  • Malay: “کانادا”
  • Malayalam: “കാനഡ”
  • Maltese: “il-Kanada”
  • Maltese: “Kanada”
  • Manipuri: “ꯀꯅꯥꯗꯥ”
  • Manx: “Canada”
  • Manx: “y Chanadey”
  • Manx: “Yn Chanadey”
  • Maori: “Kānata”
  • Marathi: “कॅनडा”
  • Mazanderani: “کانادا”
  • Mazanderani: “کاندا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Gă-nā-dâi”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “加拿大”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Canada”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Canata”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ka-ná-tāi”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kanata”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kha-ná-tah”
  • Minangkabau: “Kanada”
  • Mingrelian: “კანადა”
  • Mirandese: “Canadá”
  • Moksha: “Канада”
  • Mongolian: “Канад”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “كانادا”
  • Mossi: “Canada”
  • N'Ko: “ߞߣߊߘߊ߫”
  • Narom: “Cannada”
  • Nauru: “Kanada”
  • Navajo: “Deeteel Bikéyah”
  • Neapolitan: “Canadà”
  • Nepali: “क्यानडा”
  • Nepali: “क्यानाडा”
  • Newari: “क्यानाडा”
  • Newari: “क्यानादा”
  • Nhengatu: “Canada”
  • Nhengatu: “Kanadá”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Canada”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Dominion for Kanada”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Kanada”
  • North Ndebele: “Khanada”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kanada”
  • Northern Luri: “کانادا”
  • Northern Sami: “Kanada”
  • Northern Sami: “Kanáda”
  • Northern Thai: “ᨣᩯᨶᩣᨯᩣ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Canada”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kanada”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Canada”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kanada”
  • Norwegian: “Canada”
  • Novial: “Kanada”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Canadà”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܩܢܕܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cænada”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Canada”
  • Oriya: “କାନାଡା”
  • Oriya: “କାନାଡ଼ା”
  • Oromo: “Canada”
  • Oromo: “Kanaadaa”
  • Ossetian: “Канадæ”
  • Pa'o Karen: “ကနေဒါခမ်းထီ”
  • Pali: “केनडा”
  • Pampanga: “Canada”
  • Pampanga: “Kanada”
  • Pangasinan: “Canada”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੈਨੇਡਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Canada”
  • Pedi: “Canada”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Kanadaa”
  • Persian: “کانادا”
  • Picard: “Canada”
  • Piemontese: “Canadà”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Kaneda”
  • Polish: “Kanada”
  • Pontic: “Καναδάς”
  • Portuguese: “América do Norte Britânica”
  • Portuguese: “ca”
  • Portuguese: “Canada”
  • Portuguese: “Canadá”
  • Portuguese: “CDN”
  • Pushto: “کاناډا”
  • Quechua: “Canadá”
  • Quechua: “Kanada”
  • Quechua: “Kanata”
  • Romanian: “Canada”
  • Romansh: “Canada”
  • Rundi: “Kanada”
  • Russia Buriat: “Канада”
  • Russian: “Канада”
  • Rusyn: “Канада”
  • Sakizaya: “Canada”
  • Samoan: “Kanata”
  • Samogitian: “Kanada”
  • Sango: “Kanadäa”
  • Sanskrit: “केनडा”
  • Santali: “ᱠᱟᱱᱟᱰᱟ”
  • Saraiki: “کینیڈا”
  • Sardinian: “Canada”
  • Sassarese Sardinian: “Canada”
  • Sassarese Sardinian: “Canadà”
  • Sassarese Sardinian: “Cànada”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Kanada”
  • Scots: “Canadae”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Canada”
  • Serbian: “CDN”
  • Serbian: “Kanada”
  • Serbian: “Британска Северна Америка”
  • Serbian: “Доминион Канада”
  • Serbian: “Канада”
  • Serbian: “ᑲᓇᑕ”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kanada”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းၶႅၼ်ႇၼေႇတႃႇ”
  • Shona: “Canada”
  • Shona: “Kanada”
  • Shona: “Kanadha”
  • Sicilian: “Canadà”
  • Sicilian: “u Canadà”
  • Silesian: “Kanada”
  • Sindhi: “ڪئناڊا”
  • Sindhi: “ڪينيڊا”
  • Sinhala: “කැනඩාව”
  • Skolt Sami: “Kanada”
  • Slovak: “Kanada”
  • Slovenian: “Kanada”
  • Somali: “Kanada”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کانادا”
  • Southern Sotho: “Canada”
  • Spanish: “Can.”
  • Spanish: “Canadá”
  • Spanish: “Dominio de Canadá”
  • Spanish: “Norteamérica Británica”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Kanadakondre”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴽⴰⵏⴰⴷⴰ”
  • Sundanese: “Kanada”
  • Swahili: “Kanada”
  • Swati: “IKhanada”
  • Swedish: “Canada”
  • Swedish: “Kanada”
  • Swiss German: “Kanada”
  • Sylheti: “ꠇꠣꠘꠣꠒꠣ”
  • Sylheti: “ꠇꠦꠘꠦꠒꠣ”
  • Tachawit: “Kanada”
  • Tachawit: “ⴽⴰⵏⴰⴷⴰ”
  • Tachelhit: “Kanaḍa”
  • Tagalog: “Canada”
  • Tahitian: “Tanata”
  • Tajik: “Канада”
  • Tajik: “Конодо”
  • Talysh: “Kanada”
  • Tamil: “கனடா”
  • Taroko: “Canada”
  • Taroko: “Kanada”
  • Tatar: “Канада”
  • Telugu: “కెనడా”
  • Tetum: “Kanadá”
  • Thai: “แคนาดา”
  • Thai: “ประเทศแคนาดา”
  • Tibetan: “ཁ་ན་ཌ།”
  • Tibetan: “ཁེ་ན་ཌ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ካናዳ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Kanada”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Kānata”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Kanada”
  • Tsonga: “Canada”
  • Tsonga: “Khanada”
  • Tumbuka: “Canada”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “كندا”
  • Turkish: “Kanada”
  • Turkmen: “Kanada”
  • Twi: “Canada”
  • Twi: “Kanada”
  • Tyap: “Amerika A̱za Bi̱ri̱ti̱n”
  • Tyap: “Ka̱na̱da”
  • Udmurt: “Канада”
  • Uighur: “كانادا”
  • Ukrainian: “Canada”
  • Ukrainian: “Канада”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Kanada”
  • Urdu: “کینیڈا”
  • Uzbek: “Kanada”
  • Venetian: “Cànada”
  • Veps: “Kanad”
  • Vietnamese: “Ca-na-đa”
  • Vietnamese: “Canada (Gia Nã Đại)”
  • Vietnamese: “Canada”
  • Vietnamese: “Canađa”
  • Vietnamese: “Gia Nã Đại”
  • Vlaams: “Canada”
  • Vlax Romani: “Kanada”
  • Volapük: “Kanadän”
  • Võro: “Kanada”
  • Walloon: “Canada”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kanada”
  • Wayuu: “Kanataa”
  • Welsh: “Canada”
  • Western Armenian: “Գանատա”
  • Western Armenian: “Քանատա”
  • Western Balochi: “کانادا”
  • Western Frisian: “Canada”
  • Western Frisian: “Kanada”
  • Western Mari: “Канада”
  • Western Panjabi: “کینیڈا”
  • Wolof: “Kanadaa”
  • Wu Chinese: “加拿大”
  • Xhosa: “Khanada”
  • Yakut: “Канаада”
  • Yiddish: “קאנאדע”
  • Yiddish: “קאַנאַדע”
  • Yoruba: “Kánádà”
  • Yoruba: “Orílẹ́ède Kánádà”
  • Yue Chinese: “Canada”
  • Yue Chinese: “加拿大”
  • Yue Chinese: “坎拿大”
  • Zeeuws: “Canada”
  • Zhuang: “Gyahnazda”
  • Zhuang: “Gyanazda”
  • Zulu: “i-Canada”
  • Zulu: “IKhanada”
  • “CA”
  • “CAN”
  • “Canada”
  • “Cànada”
  • “Kanada”
  • “Kanadan”
  • “Kanadan Tlahtohkayotl”
  • “Kanadan Tlalli”
  • “ma Kanata”
  • “कनाडा”

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