Knowing More About Canada


by Allison Rodriguez - Date: 2008-10-10 - Word Count: 292 Share This!

Canada is a country that occupies mostly northern North America. It is also the second largest country by total area in the whole world. Canada and the United States of America share land borders to the south and northwest.
Canada is known as a bilingual and multicultural country, as official languages Canada has both which are English and French. Is a country with an advanced technology and also industrialized, Canada maintains a diversified economy that is heavily reliant upon its abundant natural resources and upon trade with the United States in particular, with which Canada has had a long and complex relations.

Canada is composed by ten provinces and three territories and these are grouped into regions which are the following:

1. Western Canada: consists of British Columbia and the three Prairie provinces:
1.1 Alberta
1.2 Saskatchewan
1.3 Manitoba

2. Central Canada: consists of Quebec and Ontario

3. Atlantic Canada: consists of three Maritime province along with Newfoundland and Labrador
3.1 New Brunswick
3.2 Prince Edward Island
3.3 Nova Scotia

Eastern Canada refers to Central Canada and Atlantic Canada together. The three territories mentioned make up Northern Canada:
1.Yukon
2.Northwest Territories
3.Nunavut

Canada is known as one of the wealthiest countries in the world because of their high-per-capita income. Canada has an economy that grows rapidly, also has a very low unemployment rate. Canada maintains a diversified economy that is heavily reliant upon its abundant natural resources and upon trade. Canada is very much a like with the U.S. because of their market-oriented economic system, pattern of production, and high living standards. Canada is also known as the country with the highest per capita immigration rate in the world. Canada is a country driven by economic policy and family reunification, besides that is always accepting many refugees with open arms.

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