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Canada

Standards

Road Traffic:right side

Electricity:

Voltage:120V

Frequency:60 Hz

Plug types:A & B,

TV Systems:

System:NTSC M

DVD-Region: 1

Geography

Bordering countries:

US 8,893 km (includes 2,477 km with Alaska)

Location:

Northern North America, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean on the east, North Pacific Ocean on the west, and the Arctic Ocean on the north, north of the conterminous US

Area:

total: 9,984,670 sq km

land: 9,093,507 sq km

water: 891,163 sq km

Climate:

varies from temperate in south to subarctic and arctic in north

Terrain:

mostly plains with mountains in west and lowlands in southeast

Economy

GDP: $1.165 trillion (2006 est.)

GDP growth rate: 2.8% (2006 est.)

GDP per capita: $35,200 (2006 est.)

Inflation rate: 2% (2006 est.)

Currency: Canadian dollar (CAD)

Exchange rates:

Canadian dollars per US dollar - 1.13186 (2006), 1.2118 (2005), 1.301 (2004), 1.4011 (2003), 1.5693 (2002)

People

Population: 33,098,932 (July 2006 est.)

Growth rate: 0.88% (2006 est.)

Religions:

Roman Catholic 42.6%, Protestant 23.3% (including United Church 9.5%, Anglican 6.8%, Baptist 2.4%, Lutheran 2%), other Christian 4.4%, Muslim 1.9%, other and unspecified 11.8%, none 16% (2001 census)

Languages:

English (official) 59.3%, French (official) 23.2%, other 17.5%

Government

Capital:

name: Ottawa

time difference: UTC-5 (same time as Washington, DC during Standard Time)

daylight saving time: +1hr, begins second Sunday in March; ends first Sunday in November

note: Canada is divided into six time zones

Independence:

1 July 1867 (union of British North American colonies); 11 December 1931 (independence recognized)

Note: Information on Canada was mainly sourced from CIA's World Factbook and may represent an American point of view. To learn more about Canada, please visit one of the links below.

CIA's World Factbook on Canada

Wikipedia page on Canada

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