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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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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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

  • Type: Country with 37,000,000 residents
  • Description: country in North America
  • Also known as: “América do Norte Britânica”, “Amerika A̱za Bi̱ri̱ti̱n”, “ca”, “CA”, “CAN”, “Canađa”, “Canada (country)”, “Canata”, “Canauhtlān”, “CDN”, “Commonwealth of Canada”, “Dominio de Canadá”, “Dominion for Kanada”, “Dominion of Canada”, “Estat canadenc”, “Gia Nã Đại”, “Ka-ná-tāi”, “Kanadan Tlahtohkayotl”, “Kanadan Tlalli”, “Kananda”, “Kanata Aski”, “Kannada”, “Khà-na-tá”, “Kha-ná-tah”, “le Canada”, “Norteamérica Británica”, “u Canadà”, “Британска Северна Америка”, “Доминион Канада”, “कॅनाडा”, “कैनडा”, “कैनेडा”, “ಉತ್ತರ ಬ್ರಿಟಿಷ್ ಅಮೇರಿಕ”, “ꠇꠦꠘꠦꠒꠣ”, “ປະເທດແຄນນາດາ”, “キャナダ”, “加奈陀”, “北村之國”, “村之国”, and “村国”
  • Languages: English, French, and Inuktitut
  • Neighbors: , , , and
  • Categories: dominion of the British Empire, Commonwealth realm, sovereign state, federation, and locality
  • Location:
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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
node 424313760
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
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”
  • 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”
  • Bishnupriya: “কানাডা”
  • Bislama: “Kanada”
  • Bosnian: “Kanada”
  • Breton: “Kanada”
  • Bulgarian: “Канада”
  • Burmese: “ကနေဒါ”
  • Burmese: “ကနေဒါနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Canadà”
  • Cebuano: “Kanada”
  • Central Bikol: “Canada”
  • Central Bikol: “Kanada”
  • Central Kanuri: “Canada”
  • Central Kurdish: “کەنەدا”
  • Chamorro: “Canada”
  • Chavacano: “Canada”
  • Chechen: “Канада”
  • Cherokee: “ᎨᎾᏓ”
  • Cheyenne: “Canada”
  • Chinese: “Jiānádà”
  • Chinese: “加拿大”
  • Choctaw: “Kanata”
  • Church Slavic: “Канада”
  • Chuvash: “Канада”
  • Cornish: “Kanada”
  • Corsican: “Canadà”
  • Cree: “ᑳᓇᑕ”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Kanada”
  • 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”
  • Emilian: “Cànada”
  • 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: “Kanadatò”
  • French: “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”
  • Gilaki: “کانادا”
  • Goan Konkani: “Canada”
  • Goan Konkani: “कॅनडा”
  • Goan Konkani: “ಕೆನಡಾ”
  • Gorontalo: “Kanada”
  • Gothic: “𐌺𐌰𐌽𐌰𐌳𐌰”
  • Greek: “Καναδάς”
  • Guarani: “Kanada”
  • Guarani: “Kanatã”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Kannanda”
  • Gujarati: “કેનેડા”
  • Haitian: “Kanada”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kâ-nâ-thai”
  • Hausa: “Kanada”
  • Hawaiian: “Kanakā”
  • Hebrew: “קנדה”
  • Hindi: “कनाडा”
  • Hungarian: “Kanada”
  • Iban: “Kanada”
  • Icelandic: “Kanada”
  • Ido: “Kanada”
  • Igbo: “Kanada”
  • Igbo: “Kánada”
  • 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”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Kianada”
  • Japanese: “Kanada”
  • Japanese: “カナダ”
  • Javanese: “Kanada”
  • Javanese: “Kanadha”
  • Javanese: “Kanadhah”
  • Jèrriais: “Cannada”
  • Jju: “Ka̱na̱da”
  • Kabardian: “Канадэ”
  • Kabiyè: “Kanadaa”
  • Kabuverdianu: “Kanadá”
  • Kabyle: “Kanada”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Kanada”
  • Kalaallisut: “Canada”
  • Kalmyk: “Канадин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಕೆನಡಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Kanada”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Канада”
  • Karekare: “Kanada”
  • Kashmiri: “کینَڈا”
  • Kashmiri: “کینَڑا”
  • Kashubian: “Kanada”
  • Kazakh: “Канада”
  • Khmer: “កាណាដា”
  • Kikuyu: “Canada”
  • Kikuyu: “Kanada”
  • Kildin Sami: “Канада”
  • Kinaray-A: “Kanada”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Kanada”
  • Kirghiz: “Канада”
  • Kölsch: “Kanada”
  • 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”
  • Latgalian: “Kanada”
  • Latin: “Canada”
  • Latvian: “Kanāda”
  • Lezghian: “Канада”
  • Ligurian: “Canada”
  • Limburgan: “Canada”
  • Lingala: “Kanada”
  • Lingala: “Kanadá”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Canada”
  • Literary Chinese: “加拿大”
  • Lithuanian: “Kanada”
  • Livvi: “Kanuadu”
  • Lojban: “kadnygu’e”
  • Lombard: “Canada”
  • Low German: “Kanada”
  • Low German: “Kanneda”
  • Low German: “Kannede”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Kanada”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Kanada”
  • Lule Sami: “Canáhta”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kanada”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Canada”
  • Macedonian: “Канада”
  • Madurese: “Kanada”
  • Magahi: “कनाडा”
  • Maithili: “क्यानाडा”
  • Malagasy: “Kanada”
  • Malay: “Kanada”
  • Malay: “کانادا”
  • Malayalam: “കാനഡ”
  • Maltese: “il-Kanada”
  • Maltese: “Kanada”
  • Manipuri: “ꯀꯅꯥꯗꯥ”
  • Manx: “y Chanadey”
  • Manx: “Yn Chanadey”
  • Maori: “Kānata”
  • Marathi: “कॅनडा”
  • Mazanderani: “کاندا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Gă-nā-dâi”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Canada”
  • Minangkabau: “Kanada”
  • Mingrelian: “კანადა”
  • Mirandese: “Canadá”
  • Moksha: “Канада”
  • Mongolian: “Канад”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “كانادا”
  • Mossi: “Canada”
  • N'Ko: “ߞߣߊߘߊ߫”
  • Nauru: “Kanada”
  • Navajo: “Deeteel Bikéyah”
  • Neapolitan: “Canada”
  • Neapolitan: “Canadà”
  • Nepali: “क्यानडा”
  • Nepali: “क्यानाडा”
  • Newari: “क्यानाडा”
  • Newari: “क्यानादा”
  • Nhengatu: “Kanadá”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Kanada”
  • North Ndebele: “Khanada”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kanada”
  • Northern Luri: “کانادا”
  • Northern Sami: “Kanáda”
  • Northern Thai: “ᨣᩯᨶᩣᨯᩣ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Canada”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Canada”
  • Norwegian: “Canada”
  • Novial: “Kanada”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Canada”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Canadà”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܩܢܕܐ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܩܰܢܰܕܰܐ”
  • 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”
  • Pipil: “Canada”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Kaneda”
  • Polish: “Kanada”
  • Pontic: “Καναδάς”
  • Portuguese: “Canadá”
  • 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”
  • Sardinian: “Canadà”
  • Sassarese Sardinian: “Canada”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Kanada”
  • Scots: “Canadae”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Canada”
  • Serbian: “Kanada”
  • Serbian: “Канада”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kanada”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းၶႅၼ်ႇၼေႇတႃႇ”
  • Shona: “Canada”
  • Shona: “Kanada”
  • Shona: “Kanadha”
  • Sicilian: “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: “Canadá”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Kanadakondre”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴽⴰⵏⴰⴷⴰ”
  • Sundanese: “Kanada”
  • Swahili: “Kanada”
  • Swati: “IKhanada”
  • Swedish: “Kanada”
  • Swiss German: “Kanada”
  • Sylheti: “ꠇꠣꠘꠣꠒꠣ”
  • 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”
  • Tsonga: “Canada”
  • Tsonga: “Khanada”
  • Tulu: “ಕೆನಡಾ”
  • Tumbuka: “Canada”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “كندا”
  • Turkish: “Kanada”
  • Turkmen: “Kanada”
  • Twi: “Canada”
  • Twi: “Kanada”
  • Tyap: “Ka̱na̱da”
  • Udmurt: “Канада”
  • Uighur: “كانادا”
  • Ukrainian: “Канада”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Kanada”
  • Urdu: “کینیڈا”
  • Uzbek: “Kanada”
  • Venetian: “Cànada”
  • Veps: “Kanad”
  • Vietnamese: “Ca-na-đa”
  • Vietnamese: “Canada (Gia Nã Đại)”
  • Vietnamese: “Canada”
  • 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”
  • Wolaytta: “Kanaadaa”
  • Wolof: “Kanadaa”
  • Wu Chinese: “加拿大”
  • Xhosa: “Khanada”
  • Yakut: “Канаада”
  • Yiddish: “קאנאדע”
  • Yiddish: “קאַנאַדע”
  • Yoruba: “Kánádà”
  • Yoruba: “Orílẹ́ède Kánádà”
  • Yue Chinese: “加拿大”
  • Zeeuws: “Canada”
  • Zhuang: “Gyahnazda”
  • Zhuang: “Gyanazda”
  • Zulu: “i-Canada”
  • Zulu: “IKhanada”
  • “Kanada”
  • “Kanadan”
  • “ma Kanata”
  • “Канада”
  • “कनाडा”

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