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Canada Is A Country in The Northern Part of

Canada is a vast northern country in North America that extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans. It has ten provinces and three territories and its capital is Ottawa. Various indigenous peoples inhabited Canada for thousands of years before European colonization in the 16th century by Britain and France. Canada was formed as a federal dominion in 1867 and has since gained increasing autonomy from the United Kingdom. Today Canada is a parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy that is one of the most ethnically diverse nations in the world due to large-scale immigration. It has a highly developed economy and ranks high in quality of life.

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Canada Is A Country in The Northern Part of

Canada is a vast northern country in North America that extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans. It has ten provinces and three territories and its capital is Ottawa. Various indigenous peoples inhabited Canada for thousands of years before European colonization in the 16th century by Britain and France. Canada was formed as a federal dominion in 1867 and has since gained increasing autonomy from the United Kingdom. Today Canada is a parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy that is one of the most ethnically diverse nations in the world due to large-scale immigration. It has a highly developed economy and ranks high in quality of life.

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Canada is a country in the northern part of North America.

Its ten provinces and three


territories extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering
9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world's second-largest
country by total area. Its southern border with the United States, stretching 8,891 kilometres
(5,525 mi), is the world's longest bi-national land border. Canada's capital is Ottawa, and its
three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
Various indigenous peoples inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years before European
colonization. Beginning in the 16th century, British and French expeditions explored and later settled
along the Atlantic coast. As a consequence of various armed conflicts, France ceded nearly all of its
colonies in North America in 1763. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies
through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began
an accretion of provinces and territories and a process of increasing autonomy from the United
Kingdom. This widening autonomy was highlighted by the Statute of Westminster of 1931 and
culminated in the Canada Act of 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on
the British parliament.
Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in the Westminster tradition,
with a monarch and a prime minister who serves as the chair of the Cabinet and head of
government. The country is a realm within the Commonwealth of Nations, a member of
the Francophonie and officially bilingual at the federal level. It ranks among the highest in
international measurements of government transparency, civil liberties, quality of life, economic
freedom, and education. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the
product of large-scale immigration from many other countries. Canada's long and complex
relationship with the United States has had a significant impact on its economy and culture.
A developed country, Canada has the seventeenth-highest nominal per-capita income globally as
well as the thirteenth-highest ranking in the Human Development Index. Its advanced economy is
the tenth-largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed
international trade networks. Canada is part of several major international and intergovernmental
institutions or groupings including the United Nations, NATO, the G7, the Group of Ten, the G20,
the North American Free Trade Agreement and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.

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