35 facts about Canada

Canada is a country that does not appear in the news that often. And this does not stop her from surprising tourists! Read 35 interesting facts about this country:

1. Canada is the largest country in the Western Hemisphere and the second largest in the world after Russia, and it borders only one country - the United States of America.

2. Canada has the longest coastline of any country in the world - more than 200,000 kilometers.

3. The northernmost sand dunes in the world are located in Athabasca Provincial Park in northwest Saskatchewan. Their height is 30 m.

4. Half of Canada is forested, which is not surprising given that it is home to a tenth of the world's forests.

5. Despite the fact that Canada is a huge country, it ranks fourth in the world in terms of population density: there are only three people per square kilometer!

6. About 90% of Canada's population is concentrated within 160 kilometers of the border between Canada and the United States.

7. The baseball glove was invented in Canada in 1883.

8. Canada has two official languages - French and English.

9. Canada has more donut shops per capita than any other country.

10. Canada has 20 UNESCO World Heritage Sites. One of the most interesting is a rock called "Buffalo Jump with a Broken Head". Its indigenous peoples used it to hunt bison.

11. Fifty percent of the world's polar bears live in Canada, namely, in the province of Nunavut.

12. Santa Claus has Canadian citizenship. Every year, millions of children send letters to Santa Claus. Have you ever wondered where they go? All these letters are sent to the Canadian mailing address of the North Pole, H0H 0H0. And in 2008, Santa received Canadian citizenship - from the country's Minister of Immigration!

13. For Canadians, pancakes and maple syrup are inseparable. Small cities throughout Quebec produce nearly 80% of the world's maple syrup.

14. Canada abounds in fresh water. More than two million lakes, streams and rivers located within the country's borders make up one fifth of the world's fresh water reserves.

15. For decades, the Hudson Bay region has remained an unsolved mystery for scientists. It has a lower level of gravity compared to the rest of the globe.

16. The Dead Sea in Israel is famous for its unusual water. Its salt content is so high that it is impossible to drown there. There is a similar salt lake in Canada. Lake Little Manitou, located in Saskatchewan, contains half the salt of the Dead Sea, but you can swim in it without much effort.

17. Canada has an unnamed and recently discovered island in an island. This is located at 69.793 ° N, 108.241 ° W. and a 4-acre strip of land surrounded by a large island has long been unexplored due to its inaccessibility.

18. The world's highest ebb and flow is observed in the Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick. With a range of up to 12 meters, they come and go twice a day.

19. The fortifications of Quebec, built over 300 years ago, are the only walled city in the country, as well as the first settlement in North America to be listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

20. Three Canadian islands are among the ten largest islands in the world. These are the Baffin Islands (more than double the size of the UK), Victoria Island and Ellesmere Island (both roughly the size of England).

21. More than half of all lakes in the world are located in Canada. The country has more than 3 million lakes and 31,700 large lakes with an area of over 300 hectares. Canada also has two of the largest lakes in the world: Big Bear and Big Slave.

22. Canada has the longest street in the world. Yonge Street begins at Lake Ontario and runs north through Ontario to the border with Minnesota, its length is almost 2000 km.

23. A bear cub named Winnipeg was brought from Canada to the London Zoo in 1915. A little boy named Christopher Robin Milne loved to visit Winnipeg, and for short he called him "Winnie." His love for the teddy bear inspired his father A.A. Milna on the acclaimed Winnie the Pooh story series.

24. Canada was named so because of a misunderstanding. When Jacques Cartier, a French explorer, arrived in the New World, he met with the local natives, who invited him to their "rope" (the word for "village" in their language). The researcher mistakenly assumed that the whole country is called "Kanata" or "Canada".

25. Ontario has the smallest prison in the world, with an area of ​​only 24.3 square meters. meters.

26. The Ice Hotel (Hotel de Glace) in Quebec is built every year using 400 tons of ice and 12,000 tons of snow. It melts every summer and is rebuilt next winter.

27. The Canadian Desert in British Columbia is only about 20 kilometers long and is the only desert in the world that visitors can walk along the long promenade.

28. Canada gets very rainy: In Ocean Falls, British Columbia, it rains an average of 330 days a year.

29. Canada is so huge that its national parks are larger than many countries. For example, Nahanni National Park is not only a stunning natural attraction with huge waterfalls, but an incredible 30,050 square kilometers - more than Albania and Israel. And the Wood Buffalo National Park is even grander - 44,807 square kilometers, that is, larger than Denmark and Switzerland.

30. On the northern tip of Ellesmere Island, which belongs to Canada, just 817 kilometers from the North Pole, is the northernmost permanently inhabited place in the world: Alert, Nunavut. Yes, there are no shopping centers or cinemas, but Alert is home to the military and scientific personnel permanently working in the area.

31. Putin (accent on the second syllable) is a famous dish in Canada that was first prepared in Montreal, Quebec, in the 1950s. These are French fries sprinkled with young brine cheese and drizzled with lightly sweetened gravy.

32. Another interesting fact about Canadian cuisine: the famous Hawaiian pizza was first made in Ontario in 1962.

33. Canada is as cold as it is on Mars: -63 degrees Celsius - the lowest temperature recorded in the Yukon.

34. The weather in Canada can be extreme and very changeable. For example, in 1962 in Pitcher Creek the temperature rose from -19 to 22 degrees Celsius in just an hour!

35. In Canada, the flag appeared only 98 years after the declaration of independence - on February 15, 1965.

36. Canada is larger than the entire European Union combined, 30 percent larger than Australia and three times larger than India.

37. Quebec is the only officially French-speaking province and New Brunswick is the only bilingual province in Canada.

38. The longest highway in the world is the Trans-Canada Highway, which is over 7604 km long.

39. License plates for cars, motorcycles and snowmobiles in Canada's most sparsely populated province of Nunavut have the shape of a polar bear.

40. The oldest rock on Earth can be found in the Canadian Shield. It is 4.28 billion years old and was discovered by geologists in 2001.

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