CANADA
(Canada is the country located in a northern part of North America)

Currency: Canadian dollar ($) (CAD)
Total area: 9 984 670 sq.km.
Population: 37 000 000 persons.
Capital: Ottawa
The biggest city: Toronto
Official languages: English and French

ABOUT THE COUNTRY

Canada, the second-large country in the world (after Russia) occupying approximately northern the two fifth the continent of North America.
Despite the big sizes of Canada, it is one of the most sparsely populated countries of the world. This fact in combination with greatness of a landscape was central that is the Canadian national identity as the writer-writer Anna Braunell Dzheymson who explored central Ontario in 1837 said and enthusiastically noticed: "it would seem, infinite to the line of trees before you; the boundless desert around you; mysterious depths among numerous foliage where the leg of the person never went - it are a privacy with the nature in which we passed mile behind mile where there was no person yet". Though it is a little Canadians, however they are considered model multicultural society, welcoming the population of immigrants from all continents. Besides, Canada feeds and exports rich natural resources and the intellectual capital equal to several other countries, harbors political for inhabitants and other countries.

CLIMATE

Canada occupies the most part of the continent of North America, dividing overland borders with the adjacent United States into the South and the American state Alaska on the northwest. Canada stretches from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the West; to the North the Arctic Ocean lies. Greenland is in the northeast, and in the southeast Canada shares sea border with foreign collectivity of France of France of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, the last traces of New France. On total area (including its waters) Canada is the second-large country in the world after Russia. However only on land area Canada takes the fourth place that is explained by the fact that it has the biggest share in the world among freshwater lakes. From thirteen provinces of Canada and territories of Canada only two of them have no outlet to the sea (Alberta and Saskatchewan), and other eleven directly border on one of three oceans.


TERRITORY

The huge territory of Canada which borders on three oceans and covers seven time zones abounds with contrasts. He can brag of magic coast, majestic mountains, the wild rivers, the untouched woods and untouched lakes. He can also brag of the skyscrapers of the cities found by shops and a culinary delicacy. From Calgary-Stampeda prior to the Shakespearean festival, from ethnic holidays before changing of the guard in Ottawa, Canada - a fascinating combination English and French, historical and modern, ceremonial and casual.