Canada

Canada spreads from the Atlantic Ocean right across the prairies and the Rocky Mountains to British Columbia on the Pacific Coast and north – wards to the bare beautiful Yukon and the ice – covered islands of the Arctic. In the south it borders on the USA. Kilometres square. It is second largest state after Russia. The total area of Canada is 9 984 670 kilometres square. Of this, 9 093 507 kilometres square is land and 891 163 square kilometres is fresh water. Canada's area is the second largest in the world (after Russia which has a total area of 17 075 000 square kilometres). On Canadian territory, the longest distance North to South (on land) is 4 634 kilometres from Cape Columbia on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut to Middle Island in Lake Erie, Ontario. The longest distance East to West is 5 514 kilometres from Cape Spear, Newfoundland and Labrador, to the Yukon Territory - Alaska boundary. …