Canada

Gliederung

• Land and Resources
• Physiographic Regions
• Geology
• Climate
• Natural Resources
• Vegetation
• Animals
• Population
• Political Divisions
• Principal Cities
• Religion
• Education and Culture
• Economy
• Agriculture
• Mining
• Tourism
• Currency and Banking
• Government
• Central Government
• Legislature
• Judiciary
• Provincial and Territorial Government
• Defense
• History
• The Laurier Years
• World War I and Its Effects
• The Prosperous 1920s
• The Pursuit of Well-Being (1929 from 1957)
• The Depression
• The War Years
• Postwar Prosperity
• New Foreign Ties
• A Time of Troubles
• The Turmoil of the 1960s
• The Trudeau Era
• The Conservative Reaction
• Quebec and its "Independence"

Canada, federated country of North America, bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean; on the northeast by Baffin Bay and Davis Strait, which separate it from Greenland; on the east by the Atlantic Ocean; on the south by the United States; and on the west by the Pacific Ocean and Alaska. It was formerly known as the Dominion of Canada. Occupying all of North America north of the conterminous United States, except Alaska, Greenland, Saint-Pierre Island, and the Miquelon Islands, Canada is the world's second largest country, surpassed in size only by Russia. It includes many islands, notably the Canadian Arctic Islands (Arctic Archipelago) in the Arctic Ocean. Among the larger members of this group, which in aggregate area is about 1,424,500 sq km, are Baffin, Victoria, Ellesmere, Banks, Devon, Axel Heiberg, and Melville islands. Cape Columbia, a promontory of Ellesmere Island at latitude 83°06' north, is the northernmost point of Canada; the country's southernmost point is Middle Island in Lake Erie, at latitude 41°41' north. The easternmost and westernmost limits are delineated, respectively, by longitude 52°37' west, which lies along Cape Spear, Newfoundland, and longitude 141° west, which coincides with part of the Alaskan-Yukon frontier.

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