This section is really easy to use! Just click on the map or the links above to learn more about the provinces and territories in Canada. There is also a great photo gallery to see how beautiful Canada really is!
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Canada is bordered by three oceans - the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean!
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The Great Lakes, shared by the United States and Canada, consist of one fifth of the world's fresh surface water!
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Canada is 9,984,670 km². That's almost the same size as the whole of the continent of Europe and about a third the size of Africa. You could fit the United Kingdom into Canada almost 40 times!
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Approximately 85% of Canadians live within 300 km of the US border!
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There are six times zones in Canada!
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Lake Superior is so large that it has its own tide! The lake rises and falls a few centimetres due to the gravitational pull of the moon. Waves obscure the tide so much that it is difficult to measure!
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