Key facts for this chapter (13)

• Canada has ten provinces and three territories.
• There are five regions: the Atlantic provinces, Central Canada, the Prairie provinces, the West Coast, and the Northern territories.
• Canada is the second largest country on earth, covering about 10 million square kilometres.
• Ottawa was chosen as the capital in 1857 by Queen Victoria.
• Atlantic Canada: Newfoundland and Labrador (St. John's), Prince Edward Island (Charlottetown), Nova Scotia (Halifax), New Brunswick (Fredericton).
• Central Canada: Quebec (Quebec City) and Ontario (Toronto). More than half of Canadians live here.
• Prairie provinces: Manitoba (Winnipeg), Saskatchewan (Regina), Alberta (Edmonton).
• West Coast: British Columbia (Victoria).
• Northern territories: Yukon (Whitehorse), Northwest Territories (Yellowknife), Nunavut (Iqaluit).
• New Brunswick is the only officially bilingual province.
• Prince Edward Island is the smallest province and the birthplace of Confederation.
• The tundra of the Far North is a vast rocky plain, treeless and permanently frozen.
• The three territories hold a third of Canada's land mass but less than one percent of its population.

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