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Canada is the world's second-largest country by total area, occupying most of northern North America. Inhabited first by aboriginal peoples, Canada was founded as a union of British and former French colonies. Canada gained independence from the United Kingdom in an incremental process that began in 1867 and ended in 1982.
The most densely populated part of the country is the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor along the Great Lakes and Saint Lawrence River in the southeast.[29] To the north of this region is the broad Canadian Shield, an area of rock scoured clean by the last ice age. In eastern Canada, the Saint Lawrence River widens into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, the world's largest estuary; the island of Newfoundland lies at its mouth. South of the Gulf, the Canadian Maritimes protrude eastward from the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec. New Brunswick and Nova Scotia are divided by the Bay of Fundy, which experiences the world's largest tidal variations. Ontario and Hudson Bay dominate central Canada. West of Ontario, the broad, flat Canadian Prairies spread toward the Rocky Mountains, which separate them from British Columbia.
AREA: 9,984,670 sq km
CLIMATE: Varies from temperate in south to subarctic and arctic in north
POPULATION: estimated population) is 31.5 million (2006)
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 TYPE: Constitutional monarchy that is also a parliamentary democracy and a federation
CAPITAL: Ottawa
CURRENCY: Canadian dollars
NATIONAL HOLIDAY: Canada Day, 1 July (1867)
GDP PER CAPITA (purchasing power parity): $33,900 (2005 est.)
France = $29,600 (2005 est.)
USA = $41,600 (2005 est.)
China = $6,800 (2005 est.)
Bresil = $8,300 (2005 est.)
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