Canada

At 9,970,610 km2 Canada is the largest country in the Western hemisphere, second-largest country in the world. It is over 5,000 kilometres from Newfoundland in the east to British Columbia in the west. It takes about four days to travel across Canada by car or train. Canada is so large that there are six time zones.

Canadians live in only one-third of Canada. There are about 27 million Canadians. Most Canadians live close to the United States, within 160 kilometres of the United States border. The capital of Canada is Ottawa. 

Canada has ten provinces and two territories. In the east, the four Maritime (Atlantic) provinces are Newfoundland (Nfld.), Nova Scotia (N.S.), New Brunswick (N.B.), and Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.) Two of these provinces are islands. Quebec (Que.) and Ontario (Ont.) are Canada's two largest provinces. They are in central Canada. Most of Canada's French speaking people live in Quebec. More than one-third of all the people in Canada live in Ontario.
The three prairie provinces of western Canada are Manitoba (Man.), Saskatchewan (Sask.) and Alberta (Alta.)

Canada's Pacific province is British Columbia (ВС). It begins in the Rocky Mountains and continues west to the Pacific Ocean.
Canada also has two territories in the north. They are the Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories (N.W.T). They are the home of the Inuit. The Inuit are Canada's native people of the far north, just below the Arctic Circle.

Canada is в land "I different kinds of scenery. It is a land of beautiful beaches and rocky slums, of high mountains and rolling hills, of Hat, yellow prairies and green pastures. Northern Canada is a land of large forests and many rivers and lakes. In the far north there are not many trees or plants. Southern Canada is a land of farms and big, modern cities.