Canada is a country in North America. 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. Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi), is the world's longest bi-national land border. Canada's capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
Indigenous peoples have continuously inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years. Beginning in the 16th century, British and French expeditions explored and later settled along the Atlantic coast. As a consequence of various armed conflicts, France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces and territories and a process of increasing autonomy from the United Kingdom. This widening autonomy was highlighted by the Statute of Westminster 1931 and culminated in the Canada Act 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Alberta
Population: 4,262,635
Official Languages: English & French
Currency: Canadian Dollar (CAD,$)
Income Rank: 3rd
Capital: Edmonton
Land Area: 640,330.46 km²
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British Columbia
Population 5,000,879
Official Languages: English & French
Currency: Canadian Dollar (CAD,$)
Income Rank: 4th
Capital: Victoria
Land Area: 922,503.01 km²
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Manitoba
Population: 1,342,153
Official Language: English & French
Currency: Canadian Dollar (CAD,$)
Income Rank: 8th
Capital: Winnipeg
Land Area: 552,370.99 km²
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New Brunswick
Population: 775,610
Official Languages: English & French
Currency: Canadian Dollar (CAD,$)
Income Rank: 12th
Capital: Fredericton
Land Area: 71,388.81 km²
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Newfoundland & Labrador
Population: 510,550
Official Languages: English & French
Currency: Canadian Dollar (CAD,$)
Income Rank: 10th
Capital: St. John's
Land Area: 370,514.08km²
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Nova Scotia
Population: 969,383
Official Languages: English & French
Currency: Canadian Dollar (CAD,$)
Income Rank: 11th
Capital: Halifax
Land Area: 52,942.27 km²
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Ontario
Population: 14,223,942
Official Languages: English & French
Currency: Canadian Dollar (CAD,$)
Income Rank: 5th
Capital: Toronto
Land Area: 908,699.33 km²
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Prince Edward Island
Population: 154,331
Official Languages: English & French
Income Rank: 9th
Currency: Canadian Dollar (CAD,$)
Capital: Charlottetown
Land Area: 5,686.03 km²
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Quebec
Population: 8,501,833
Official Languages: French & English
Currency: Canadian Dollar (CAD,$)
Income Rank: 6th
Capital: Quebec City
Land Area: 1,356,625.27 km²
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Population: 1,132,505
Official Languages: English & French
Currency: Canadian Dollar (CAD,$)
Income Rank: 7th
Capital: Regina
Land Area: 588,243.54 km²
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Northwest Territories
Population: 41,070
Official Languages: Inuktitut, Inuinnaqtun, Inuvialuktun, Gwich'in, North Slavey, South Slavey, Tłı̨chǫ, Chipewyan, Cree, English & French
Currency: Canadian Dollar (CAD,$)
Income Rank: 1st
Capital: Yellowknife
Land Area: 1,143,793.86 km²
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Nunavut
Population: 36,858
Official Languages: English, French, Inuktitut, & Inuinnaqtun
Currency: Canadian Dollar (CAD,$)
Income Rank: 13th
Capital: Iqaluit
Land Area: 1,877,778.53 km²
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Yukon
Population: 40,232
Official Languages: English & French
Currency: Canadian Dollar (CAD,$)
Income Rank: 2nd
Capital: Whitehorse
Land Area: 474,712.68 km²
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