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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.
In some of Canada's provinces, census divisions are equivalent to counties. They may also be known by different names in different provinces, or in different parts of provinces. The below table shows the largest and smallest census division in Canada and the provinces and territories by area and by population. [1]
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 ...
A population centre (PC), formerly known as an urban area (UA), is any grouping of contiguous dissemination areas that has a minimum population of 1,000 and an average population density of 400 persons per square kilometre or greater. [14] For the 2011 census, urban area was renamed "population centre".
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.
Province/territory Largest municipality 2nd largest 3rd largest Alberta: Calgary: Edmonton: Strathcona County: British Columbia: Vancouver: Surrey: Burnaby: Manitoba
Ontario, Canada's fourth largest subdivision (after Nunavut, Quebec, and the Northwest Territories), had, at the 2021 Canadian census, a land area of 892,411.76 km 2 (344,562.11 sq mi) [1] (10.15 per cent of Canada and the fifth largest after Nunavut, Quebec, the Northwest Territories, and British Columbia) and as of 2017, there was 177,390 km 2 (68,490 sq mi) [2] (21.55 per cent of Canada and ...