Canada Map

Canada is a North American country, composed of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent stretching from the Atlantic Ocean east of the Pacific Ocean to the west and north into the Arctic Ocean. Covering more than 9.9 million square kilometers, Canada is the second country in total area, and their common border with the United States is the longest land border in the world.

The land that is now Canada was inhabited for millennia by various groups of indigenous peoples. In the late 15th century British and French expeditions, and later explored installed along the Atlantic coast region. France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763, seven years after the war. In 1867, with the union of three British colonies in North America through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. It started with an increase in provinces and territories and a process of increasing autonomy from Great Britain. This extension of the autonomy was underlined by the Balfour Declaration of 1926 and reaffirmed by the 1931 Statute of Westminster, who said to equal self-governing dominions within the British Empire. The Canadian in 1982 finally broke the remains of the legal dependence on British Parliament.

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