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The Canada–United States border is the longest international border in the world. [a] The boundary (including boundaries in the Great Lakes, Atlantic, and Pacific coasts) is 8,891 km (5,525 mi) long. The land border has two sections: Canada's border with the contiguous United States to its south, and with the U.S. state of Alaska to its
The international border between Canada and the United States, with Yukon on one side and Alaska on the other, circa 1900-1923 [1]. The borders of Canada include: . To the south and west: An international boundary with the United States, forming the longest shared border in the world, 8,893 km (5,526 mi); [2] (Informally referred as the 49th parallel north which makes up the boundary at parts.
Canada has the longest coastline in the world, with a total length of 243,042 kilometres (151,019 mi); [6] additionally, its border with the United States is the world's longest land border, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi). [7]
Securing the world's longest land border - about 4,000 miles (6,400 km) across forests, fields, ditches and lakes - is a gargantuan task. ... directly from the airport but could not say how many ...
Longest land border: China: 22,147 km (13,762 mi) Longest land border between two countries: [5] Canada – United States: 8,891 km (5,525 mi) [p] (Canada–United States border) Kazakhstan – Russia: 6,846 km (4,254 mi) (Kazakhstan–Russia border) Argentina – Chile: 5,308 km (3,298 mi) (Argentina–Chile border) China – Mongolia: 4,677 ...
When you’re a city located just 20 miles from southern Canada like Bellingham is, getting to the border is easy. Crossing can be a little more complicated.
The number of people seeking asylum at the U.S.-Canada border or or trying to cross into the U.S. has ... the number of asylum-seekers arriving legally at airports across the country has more than ...
In addition to sharing the world's largest land border with the United States—spanning 8,891 km (5,525 mi) [a] —Canada shares a land border with Greenland (and hence the Kingdom of Denmark) to the northeast, on Hans Island, [119] and a maritime boundary with France's overseas collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon to the southeast. [120]