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CapitalOttawa
Currency
Canadian Dollar (CAD)
LanguageEnglish, French
TimezoneUTC-3:30 to UTC-8
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GDP Total
$2243.6B (2024)
Life Expectancy82.1 years (2024)
CO₂ Emissions578.0 Mt (2024)
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Canada Travel Guide 2026: The World's Second Largest Country and What Most People Get Completely Wrong About It
Canada is the second largest country in the world by area — 9.98 million km², slightly larger than the entire continent of Europe — and has a population of approximately 40 million people. That ratio of land to people produces a country where 90% of ...
Mar 30, 2026
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Canada is Not What You Think: 10 Things That Genuinely Surprise Visitors
Canada has a branding problem. Not a bad one — "nice, clean, polite, cold, hockey" is perfectly respectable — but it understates the country dramatically. Canada is enormous, geologically weird, historically complex, and home to some of the world's m...
Mar 27, 2026