Canada

Facts

What the numbers say about Canada

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 1.71× the size of Canada.
• Canada ranks 2nd of 239 by area but only 39th of 237 by population: it holds fewer people than its size suggests.
• At 3.7 people per km², Canada is the 177th most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 60°N is drawn about 4.1× too large in area, so Canada looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Canada's main territory stretches about 4,550 km north to south and 5,390 km east to west.
• Wikidata's official figure of 9,985,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 9,946,000 km², to within 2%.

How Canada measures up

Canada holds 41% of the land area and 6.2% of the people of the 27 countries listed for North America. In Northern America it is the 1st largest of 3.

Where Canada sits

• Canada's centre lies at 60.4°N, 96.5°W, in the northern and western hemispheres, about 6,720 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 42°N to 83°N, about 4,610 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Canada had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Canada would have 12.46 billion people. It has 37.0 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 719.6 million.

Provinces and territories of Canada

Natural Earth’s file divides Canada into 13 provinces and territories. Each has its own page, drawn at true size and matched to the countries closest to it in area and in people.

• Nunavut2,080,000 km²
• Quebec1,506,000 km²
• Northwest Territories1,348,000 km²
• Ontario1,078,000 km²
• British Columbia946,000 km²
• Alberta664,000 km²
• Manitoba653,000 km²
• Saskatchewan651,000 km²

All 13 provinces and territories, matched to countries

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