Canada is the second largest country in the world covering 9,984,670 square kilometers. The distance between Nunavut to Ontario (north to south) is 4,634 km. The longest distance between Newfoundland and Labrador to the Yukon Territory where it borders with Alaska (east to west) is 5,514 km.

Canada has six different time zones: Newfoundland, Atlantic, Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific.

Canada's natural wealth of forests, wildlife, protected areas and water is world-renowned.

In the Arctic Circle (in northern Canada) the sea is covered with ice and floating icebergs. There are the large areas of frozen land called tundra where very little grows. South of the tundra are rocks, forests, swamps, rivers and lakes.

There are thick forests (in Canada's west) and high mountain ranges. Further eastward there are large areas of flat plains and farm land, beyond which the landscape changes to rugged coastline.