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Canada
Name origin: Saint-Lawrence Iroquoian word kanata meaning "settlement"
Location: North America
Capital: Ottawa
Population: approximately 38 million
Neighbour countries: USA, Greenland (Denmark), Saint Pierre and Miquelon (France)
Land border: USA (8,893 km)
Provinces: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan
Territories: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon
Total area: 9,984,670 km²
- Land: 9,093,507 km²
- Water: 891,163 km²
- Coastline: 202,080 km
- Lowest point: Atlantic & Pacific Ocean (0 m)
- Highest point: Mount Logan – 5,959 m
- Size: 493× the size of Slovenia
