Canada Country in North America

1. Canada, stretching from the U.S. in the south to the Arctic Circle in the north, is filled with vibrant cities including massive, multicultural Toronto; predominantly French-verbalizing Montréal and Québec City; Vancouver and Halifax on the Pacific and Atlantic coasts, respectively; and Ottawa, the capital. It’s additionally crossed by the Rocky Mountains and home to prodigious swaths of bulwarked wilderness.

Canada is a country in North America consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it elongates from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean. Covering 9.98 million square kilometres in total, Canada is the world's second-most sizably voluminous country by total area and the fourth-most immensely colossal country by land area. Its prevalent border with the Coalesced States forms the world's longest land border.

The land that is now Canada has been inhabited for millennia by sundry Aboriginal peoples. Beginning in the tardy 15th century, British and French colonies were established on the region's Atlantic coast. As a consequence of sundry conflicts, the Amalgamated Kingdom gained and lost North American territories until left, in the tardy 18th century, with what mostly comprises Canada today. Pursuant to the British North America Act, on July 1, 1867, three colonies joined to compose the autonomous federal Ascendancy of Canada. This commenced an accretion of provinces and territories to the incipient self-governing Ascendancy. In 1931, Britain granted Canada near total independence with the Statute of Westminster 1931 and full sovereignty was procured when the Canada Act 1982 severed the vestiges of licit dependence on the British parliament.