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This is a partial list of lakes of Canada. Canada has an extremely large number of lakes, with the number of lakes larger than three square kilometres being estimated at close to 31,752 by the Atlas of Canada. Of these, 561 lakes have a surface area larger than 100 km 2, [1] including four of the Great Lakes. Almost 9% (891,163 square ...
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.
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 ...
Nunavut (/ ˈ n ʊ n ə v ʊ t /, / ˈ n uː n ə v uː t /; French:, , ; Inuktitut: ᓄᓇᕗᑦ, , lit. ' our land ' [11]) is the largest and northernmost territory of Canada.It was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999, via the Nunavut Act [12] and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act, [13] which provided this territory to the Inuit for self-government.
The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowlands, or simply St. Lawrence Lowlands, is a physiographic region of Eastern Canada that comprises a section of southern Ontario bounded on the north by the Canadian Shield and by three of the Great Lakes — Lake Huron, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario — and extends along the St. Lawrence River to the Strait of Belle Isle [1] and the Atlantic Ocean.
The Northwest Territories (abbreviated NT or NWT; French: Territoires du Nord-Ouest; formerly North-West Territories) is a federal territory of Canada. At a land area of approximately 1,127,711.92 km 2 (435,412.01 sq mi) and a 2021 census population of 41,070, it is the second-largest and the most populous of the three territories in Northern ...
Lakes of Newfoundland and Labrador (27 P) Lakes of the Northwest Territories (46 P) Lakes of Nova Scotia (142 P) Lakes of Nunavut (3 C, 1 P)
Lower Mainland, primarily consisting of river or lake islands in Burrard Inlet, Harrison Lake, and the Fraser River. Central Coast, including: Johnstone Strait-Queen Charlotte Strait region (Broughton Archipelago) Fitz Hugh Sound-Dean Channel region; North Coast, including: Queen Charlotte Sound-Hecate Strait region; Dixon Entrance-Portland ...
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