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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
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: $1.114 trillion (2005 est.)
GDP growth rate: 2.9% (2005 est.)
GDP per capita: $34,000 (2005 est.)
Inflation rate: 2.2% (2005 est.)
Currency: Canadian dollar (CAD)
Exchange rates: Canadian dollars per US dollar - 1.2118 (2005), 1.301 (2004), 1.4011 (2003), 1.5693 (2002), 1.5488 (2001)
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 first Sunday in April; ends first Sunday in November; note - beginning in 2007, DST will begin the second Sunday in March
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.
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