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World Map: A Brief Introduction to Canada

The scale of the world map of Canada is 1:965438+ million; City map (Chinese and foreign); Vancouver Toronto Ottawa Montreal; Text description is 5500 words. Canada is the second largest country in the world, and its territory occupies the main part of the northern half of the North American continent. The eastern end of Canada starts from Capesol, Newfoundland, and the western end ends at the border between Tory, Contri and Alaska, with a total length of 55 14 km. The northern end starts from Cape Columbia in the northwest, and the southern end ends at Middleisland in Lake Erie, with a total length of 4,634 kilometers. Canada is surrounded by the sea on three sides: the Atlantic Ocean, the Arctic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, bordering the United States in the south and west, and facing Greenland in the northeast. The land area is 3,560,000 square miles (92 1000 square kilometers), and the total land and fresh water area is 9,976100 square kilometers. There are ice fields, tundra, sub-frigid coniferous forests and lakes in 88% of the territory. Canada has vast land and mountains, plains, lakes, rivers and bays. Rich natural resources such as grasslands, forests and minerals. Her endless forests and snowy areas, beautiful and quiet lakes and mountains are also places that tourists yearn for. The geographical environment of Canada determines the geographical distribution of Canadians. At present, only about 10% of the country has permanent residential areas, and most areas are uninhabited because of climate and topography. Only Prince Edward Island is completely inhabited. More than 50% of the Canadian population lives in metropolitan areas. The population density is less than 1 person/square kilometer in remote areas and more than 5000 people/square kilometer in urban areas.