A country in Northern North America, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean on the east, North Pacific Ocean on the west, and the Arctic Ocean on the north, north of the conterminous US
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Russian Government type: Confederation with parliamentary democracy
Capital: Ottawa
National holiday: Canada Day, 1 July (1867)
Constitution: adopted 17 April 1982
Legal system: based on English common law, except in Quebec, where civil law system based on French law prevails; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction, with reservations.
Flag description: two vertical bands of red (hoist and fly side, half width), with white square between them; an 11-pointed red maple leaf is centered in the white square.
National Emblem: Canada Coat of Arms
Symbol: Beaver
Major Cities: Otttawa, Montreal, Vancouver, Edmonton
Ethnic groups:
- British Isles origin 28%
- French origin 23%
- other European 15%
- Amerindian 2%
- other, mostly Asian, African, Arab 6%
- mixed background 26%
Population: 32,805,041 (July 2005 est.)
Religions: (2001 census)
- Roman Catholic 42.6%
- Protestant 23.3%
- other Christian 4.4%
- Muslim 1.9%,
- other and unspecified 11.8%
- none 16%
Languages: English (official) 59.3%, French (official) 23.2%, other 17.5%
Lowest point: Atlantic Ocean 0 m
Highest point: Mount Logan 5,959 m
Resources:
- iron ore
- nickel, zinc
- copper
- gold
- lead
- molybdenum
- potash
- diamonds
- silver
- fish
- timber
- wildlife
- coal
- petroleum
- natural gas
- hydropower