Explore Canada in North America

Description and Basic Information

Canada with its capital Ottawa is located in North America (Northern North America, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean on the east). It covers some 9,984,671 square kilometres (slightly larger than the US) with 33,679,000 citizens. English and French are the some of the languages spoken by the majority in Canada. United States is a bordering country.

Canada is the second largest country in the world and the largest in North America. Canada is a land of vast distances and rich natural beauty. Economically and technologically, it resembles its neighbour to the south, the United States, although there are significant differences between the two countries. Trying to distill the climate of Canada into an easy-to-understand statement is impossible, given the vast area that this country occupies. Much of southern Ontario has a climate similar to the northeastern United States. Visiting Canada all in one trip is a massive undertaking. Over 5000 kilometres separate St. John's, Newfoundland from Victoria, British Columbia. There are many cities in Canada, all of which are distinctive, welcoming to tourists, and well worth visiting. All potential visitors, whether applying for a temporary resident visa or requesting landing permission at the border must be of good moral character, and under Canadian law this means having a completely clean criminal history. Immigration authorities take character concerns of visitors very seriously and any offence, misdemeanor or felony, regardless of how minor or how long ago it took place can exclude you from Canada for a period of time, indefinitely, or permanently. English and French are the only two official languages in Canada. In some parts of the country, April and May mark the beginning of Canadian music festival season. Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories celebrates spring with the Cariblues Festival, Halifax showcases chamber music with the Scotia Festival of Music and Ottawa highlights concerts, flowers and history at the Canadian Tulip Festival.

Pictures from Ottawa (Capital)

Photos provided by Panoramio are under the copyright of their owners.

About Canada

The terrain offers mostly plains with mountains in west and lowlands in southeast. The average density of population is about 3 per km². The climate in can be described as varying from temperate in south to subarctic and arctic in north. Possible natural disasters include continuous permafrost in north being a serious obstacle to development or cyclonic storms form east of the Rocky Mountains, a result of the mixing of air masses from the Arctic, Pacific, and North American interior, and produce most of the country's rain and snow east of the mountains.

To reach someone in Canada dial +1 prior to a number. There are 18,251,000 installed telephones. And there are 23,081,000 registered mobile phones. The cellular networks operate on frequencies of 850, 1900 Mhz. Websites typically end with the top level domain ".ca". If you want to bring electric appliances (e.g. battery charger), keep in mind the local 120V - 60Hz.

The country consists of 13 regions/states which are listed below.

Regions/States of Canada

Canadian Tourism Information

Official Tourism Office

Website: Canada Tourism

8th Floor West, 235 Queen Street
Ottawa, ON K1A 0H6
Canada

Phone: +1 613 946 1000

Unesco World Heritage Properties

Canada has 8 more world heritage locations. To see all of them, visit the Canada Unesco Heritage location overview.

Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks

The contiguous national parks of Banff, Jasper, Kootenay and Yoho, as well as the Mount Robson, Mount Assiniboine and Hamber provincial parks, studded with mountain peaks, glaciers, lakes,...

Dinosaur Provincial Park

In addition to its particularly beautiful scenery, Dinosaur Provincial Park – located at the heart of the province of Alberta's badlands – contains some of the most important fossil...

Gros Morne National Park

Situated on the west coast of the island of Newfoundland, the park provides a rare example of the process of continental drift, where deep ocean crust and the rocks of the earth's mantle lie...

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump

In south-west Alberta, the remains of marked trails and an aboriginal camp, and a tumulus where vast quantities of buffalo (American Bison) skeletons can still be found, are evidence of a custom...

Historic District of Old Québec

Québec was founded by the French explorer Champlain in the early 17th century. It is the only North American city to have preserved its ramparts, together with the numerous bastions, gates...

Demographic Information

Age Distribution in Canada

Each pair of bars represents a single age group (male/female). Each group is spanning 5 years. E.g. 0 to 5 years, 5 to 10 etc. and group "0 to 5" being at the left end and "100 +" at the right end of the chart.

Natural Population Growth

Population, Migration and Growth: The population in Canada is growing at an rate of 0.8% (or by 271,766 citizens). Each year 190,405 people enter this country (or 5.60 per thousand citizens) - making it an immigration country. This leads to an absolute natural increase rate of the population of 0.24%. Or an total increase of 81,361 citizens.

Based on content from wikitravel.org. The original article can be found here based on the work of these users.
Geographic information is based on the data provided by geonames.org, CIA factsbook and Unesco.