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and three territories. Located in the northern part of the

continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean. Spanning over 9.9 million square kilometers, Canada is the world's second-largest country by total area, and its common border with the United States is the longest land border in the world.

A Mari Usque Ad Mare  (Latin) "From Sea to Sea"

democracy and a constitutional monarchy with Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state. It is

a bilingual nation with both English and French as official languages at the federal level. One of the world's most highly-developed countries, Canada has a diversified economy that is reliant upon its abundant natural resources and upon trade – particularly with the United States, with which Canada has had a long and complex relationship. It is a member of the G7, G8, G20, NATO, OECD, WTO, Commonwealth of Nations, Francophonie, OAS, APEC, and UN. With the sixth-highest Human Development Index globally, Canada has one of the highest standards of living in the world.

consists of written text and unwritten conventions. The Constitution Act,

1867 (known as the British North America Actprior to 1982) affirmed governance based on parliamentary precedent and divided powers between the federal and provincial governments; the Statute of Westminster 1931 granted full autonomy; and the Constitution Act, 1982, ended all legislative ties to the UK, added a constitutional amending formula, and added the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which guarantees basic rights and freedoms that usually cannot be overridden by any government – though a notwithstanding clause allows the federal parliament and provincial legislatures to override certain sections of the Charter for a period of five years.

The Constitution of Canada

United Nations in 1945 and of NATO in 1949. During the Cold War,

Canada was a major contributor to UN forces in the Korean War and founded the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) in cooperation with the United States to defend against potential aerial attacks from the Soviet Union.

Canada joined the Organization of American States (OAS) in 1990 and hosted the OAS General Assembly in Windsor, Ontario, in June 2000 and the third Summit of the Americas in Quebec City in April 2001. Canada seeks to expand its ties to Pacific Rim economies through membership in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC).

these may be grouped into regions: Western Canada, Central Canada, Atlantic Canada, and Northern Canada (Eastern

Canada refers to Central Canada and Atlantic Canada together). Provinces have more autonomy than territories. The provinces are responsible for most of Canada's social programs (such as health care, education, and welfare) and together collect more revenue than the federal government, an almost unique structure among federations in the world. Using its spending powers, the federal government can initiate national policies in provincial areas, such as the Canada Health Act; the provinces can opt out of these, but rarely do so in practice. Equalization payments are made by the federal government to ensure that reasonably uniform standards of services and taxation are kept between the richer and poorer provinces.

Provinces and territories

the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Official Languages Act,

and Official Language Regulations; it is applied by the Commissioner of Official Languages. English and French have equal status in federal courts, Parliament, and in all federal institutions. Citizens have the right, where there is sufficient demand, to receive federal government services in either English or French, and official-language minorities are guaranteed their own schools in all provinces and territories

Canadian French

Canadian English

including movies, television, clothing, housing and private transport, consumer goods and food. Despite this, Canada has its

own unique culture. In Canada, many orchestras working with international renown, for example, the Quebec Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and especially the Montreal Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Kent Nagano.

Culture

most popular spectator sport in the country. It is also

the sport most played by Canadians, with 1.65 million participants reported in 2004. Seven of Canada's eight largest metropolitan areas – Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, Calgary, Edmonton and Winnipeg – have franchises in the National Hockey League (NHL), and there are more Canadian players in the NHL than from all other countries combined. Other popular spectator sports include curling and football; the latter is played professionally in the Canadian Football League (CFL). Golf, baseball, skiing, soccer, cricket, volleyball, and basketball are widely played at youth and amateur levels, but professional leagues and franchises are not widespread

Summer Olympics in Montreal, the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, and the 2007 FIFA

U-20 World Cup. Canada was the host nation for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and Whistler, British Columbia.

Columbia and the third largest in Canada. In 2010, in Vancouver conductedXXI Olympic Winter Games. The research group Economist

Intelligence Unit (EIU)British publication The Economist three times - in 2005, 2007, 2009, Vancouver,appropriated the title of "Best of Earth," in 2011, it received the title of Melbourne. The population of the city - 600 000. (June 2006), but in Greater Vancouver (Greater Vancouver), given over 20 suburbs, is home to over 2 million people. Greater Vancouver is also often called Lauer Meynlend (Lower Mainland), then there is a large lower ground, keeping in mind its location on the coast (as opposed to Vancouver Island, where the provincial capital city of Victoria). Together with otherneighboring municipalities on the board of Vancouver Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD).

the largest city in the province of Quebec and the

second largest city in Canada. Originally the city was called Ville-Marie, or "city of Mary." The name comes from the Montreal Mont-Royal, which is located in the city center, on average, it sounded like the French Mont Real.As of July 2009, the population of Greater Montreal totaled 3.814 million people, the population of metropolitan Montreal, which includes the municipalities of the island of Montreal was 1,906,811. The population of the city of Montreal is estimated at 1,620,693 people.  The only official language in - French, for 59.8% of residents of the city, this is the mother tongue, then the number of carriers should be English - 19.4%. In Greater Montreal, the French share of the carriers is 67.9% of the population, second place is English - 16.5%. More than half of the city's population owns both languages.Montreal - the largest francophone city in the world after Paris. Also in the world, there are other French-speaking city - Kinshasa, Algiers and Abidjan, but in these cities is used in French as a second language