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Canada Provinces and Territories
This category is for the 10 provinces and three territories that make up the second largest country in the world: Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, Nunavut, Yukon, and the Northwest Territories.
1,088 Questions
What territory is the least populated in Canada?
Prince Edward Island is Canada's smallest province, both by area and population. PEI also has, by far, the highest population density of any Canadian province.
Is Alberta a province of the Northwest Territories?
Alberta is not part of a territory.
It is part of the prairies
How many Canadian provinces border the Great Lakes?
West of the Great Lakes, there are 4 states that border Canada, and east of the Great Lakes, there are 3 more. Of the 8 US states that border the Great Lakes, only 5 have an international boundary with Canada on a lake.
8 States that border a Great Lake: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York.
12 states that border Canada: Washington, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine.
How many maritime provinces does Canada have?
Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. Newfoundland is an Atlantic province along with the three maritime provinces.
What is the order of largest to smallest provinces in Canada?
RankName and flagTotal area (km²)Total area (mi²)Percentage of
national total area1 Nunavut 2,093,190 808,199 21.0% 2 Quebec 1,542,056 595,402 15.4% 3 Northwest Territories 1,346,106 519,744 13.5% 4 Ontario 1,076,395 415,606 10.8% 5 British Columbia 944,735 364,771 9.5% 6 Alberta 661,848 255,545 6.6% 7 Saskatchewan 651,036 251,371 6.5% 8 Manitoba 647,797 250,120 6.5% 9 Yukon 482,443 186,276 4.8% 10 Newfoundland and Labrador 405,212 156,456 4.1% 11 New Brunswick 72,908 28,150 0.7% 12 Nova Scotia 55,284 21,346 0.6% 13 Prince Edward Island 5,660 2,185 0.1% Total Canada9,984,670 3,855,171 100.0%
Iqaluit is the capital of the Canadian territory of Nunavut.
What provinces of Canada make up the prairie provinces?
The prairie provinces of Canada are Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. The southern parts of these provinces are covered in grassland.
What is the name and in which province will they find Canada's capital city?
The capital city is Ottawa, it's province is Ontario.
Witch four provinces joined together first in confederation?
The 1867 'Constitution Act' instituted confederation of four provinces; Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, as "one Dominion under the name of Canada".
Which provinces northern border is foundon nunavut?
Nunavut has land borders with the Northwest Territories on several islands as well as the mainland, Manitoba to the south of the Nunavut mainland, Saskatchewan to the southwest and a tiny land border with Newfoundland and Labrador on Killiniq Island. It also shares maritime borders with the provinces of Quebec, Ontario, and Manitoba and with Greenland. -wikipedia
What is the 10 Canadian provinces?
The provinces in Canada are; British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Prince Edward Island.
The territories in Canada are; Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.
What Canadian province is on an island?
Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland are all provinces that are islands. Note: The entire province of Newfoundland and Labrador is not an island, only Newfoundland, Labrador is part of the main land.
When did provinces of Canada join the confederation?
Canada has 10 provinces and now, since 1999, 3 territories. The year they joined confederation:
Original 4 provinces:
Ontario, 1867
Nova Scotia, 1867
New Brunswick, 1867
Quebec, 1867
Followed by:
Manitoba, 1870
Northwest Territories, 1870
British Columbia, 1871
Prince Edward Island, 1873
Yukon Territory, 1898
Alberta, 1905
Saskatchewan, 1905
Newfoundland, 1949
Division of the Northwest Territories into 2:
Nunavut Territory, 1999
Which territory and which province border the state of Alaska?
Alaska is bordered by the Canadian province of British Columbia. It also is bordered by Yukon, a Canadian territory.
What is Nunavut special natural features?
Nunavut covers 1,932,255 Sq. Km. of land. It is fairly flat (a plain) other than mountains and valleys. it is very snowy with lots of trees and animals.
What is the name of the river that starts in Canada and blows into central Alaska?
The Yukon River runs through Canada & Alaska all the way out to the Bering Sea.
How many provinces and territories are in US?
Physiographically, Nevin Fenneman's paper Physiographic Subdivision of the United States, published in 1917, identifies 25 provinces of the contiguous United States.
Geologically,there are 10 provinces in the contiguous United States according to the US Geological Survey.
Politically, the US is divided into states, territories, and commonwealths, but not provinces.
What are the 10 Canadian Provinces?
The ten provinces of Canada are:
- Alberta
- British Columbia
- Manitoba
- New Brunswick
- New Foundland and Labrador
- Nova Scotia
- Ontario
- Prince Edward Island
- Quebec
- Saskatchewan
Which Canadian province has Halifax as its capital city?
Halifax is the capital of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.
What provinces surround Hudson bay?
Four provinces border Hudson Bay. They are; Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, and Nunavut.
Which province is yellowknife in?
Northwest Territories is the territory with the capital of Yellowknife.
When and how are new provinces created?
With confederation-
Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in 1867
Manitoba in 1870
British Columbia in 1871
Prince Edward Island in 1873
Alberta and Saskatchewan in 1905
Newfoundland in 1949
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New Brunswick and Nova Scotia were original Canadian provinces. They existed as colonies prior to Confederation. They were not "created" as new provinces.
Likewise, British Columbia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland existed as colonies prior to entering Confederation. They were not "created" as new provinces.
Rupert's Land and the North-western Territory were transferred from Britain to Canada on July 15, 1870, and became the Northwest Territories.
Manitoba was created as a province by the Government of Canada on July 15, 1870. Alberta and Saskatchewan were created as provinces by the Government of Canada on September 1, 1905.
Yukon was created as a territory by the Government of Canada on June 13, 1898.
Nunavut was created as a territory by the Government of Canada on April 1, 1999.
