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Canada is divided into 10 provinces and three territories.The majority of Canada's population is concentrated in the areas close to the Canada–US border.Its four largest provinces by area (Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, and Alberta) are also its most populous; together they account for 86.5 percent of the country's population.
Quebec [a] is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.It is the largest province by area [b] with an area of 1.5 million square kilometres (0.58 million square miles) and more than 12,000 km (7,500 mi) of borders, [13] [14] in North America, Quebec is located in Central Canada.
Canada has ten provinces and three territories that are sub-national administrative divisions under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Constitution.In the 1867 Canadian Confederation, three provinces of British North America—New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and the Province of Canada (which upon Confederation was divided into Ontario and Quebec)—united to form a federation, becoming a fully ...
Provincial lands account for 60% of the area of the province of Alberta, [3] 94% of the land in British Columbia, [4] 95% of Newfoundland and Labrador, [1] and 48% of New Brunswick. [5] The largest single landowner in Canada by far, and by extension one of the world's largest, is the Government of Canada.
By land area alone, however, Canada ranks fourth, the difference being due to it having the world's largest proportion of fresh water lakes. [3] Of Canada's thirteen provinces and territories, only two are landlocked (Alberta and Saskatchewan) while the other eleven all directly border one of three oceans.
Top left: The Quebec City–Windsor Corridor is the most densely inhabited and heavily industrialized region accounting for nearly 50 percent of the total population [1] Canada ranks 36th by population among countries of the world, comprising about 0.5% of the world's total, [ 2 ] with more than 40 million Canadians as of 2024.
The geographically massive cities in Quebec – three of them larger than the entire province of Prince Edward Island – were created in the 1990s, when the provincial government added some vast unorganized areas (territoires non organisés) into self-governing municipalities, centred on a single dominant urban centre and surrounded by ...
The provinces and territories are sometimes grouped into regions, listed here from west to east by province, followed by the three territories.Seats in the Senate are equally divided among four regions: the West, Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritimes, with special status for Newfoundland and Labrador as well as for the three territories of Northern Canada ('the North').