Interesting facts related to Canada

Faizan Musanna
3 min readOct 19, 2019

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Canada is a country located in North America which is a cold place. Let us tell you some interesting facts related to Canada.

Canada by area is the second-largest country in the world after Russia.

Canada is the most educated country in the world, where more than half of the population will get college degrees.

The lowest temperature in Canada was -81.4 degrees Fahrenheit in 1947.

There are so many lakes (more than 3000) in Canada that even if all the lakes of the world are mixed, they will fall short.

The number of people eating macaroni and cheese in Canada is more than in other countries.

Prostitution is legal by law in Canada, but prostitutes cannot be purchased.

Canada’s GDP ranks 11th in the world.

Posts in Canada are not given on Sundays and this has been happening for the last 35 years.

Canada is the largest oil reserve after Saudi Arabia.

Lacrosse is the official game of Canada while ice hockey is played more here.

In Canada, both English and French have official status. The reason for this is that the French people ruled here for many years while the people of Canada speak English.

Winterlude is an annual festival held in Ottawa in which the people of Canada enjoy the freezing temperatures and snow.

Canada Day celebrated on July 1, is an important day on which the people of Canada celebrate by lighting fire, drinking beer and wearing red-white clothes.

The basketball game was discovered by a Canadian resident named Dr James Nasmith. He discovered the game with Boston students.

More than 22 per cent of the Canadian the population is immigrant.

Canada has a 7604 km long Trans-Canada Highway, which is the longest highway in the world.

The standard of living in Canada is very high, so it is considered as the best place to raise a family.

In Montreal, Canada has more churches than houses, so it is also called churches.

Canada has a very low population density while being the second-largest country in the world.

77 per cent of the world’s maple syrup is produced in Quebec, Canada.

Like the Americans, the people of Canada celebrate Thanksgiving but they celebrate it on the second Monday of October instead of November.

Canada is made up of three provinces and ten territories.

The number of French-speaking people in Montreal is the second number in the world, while Paris is in the first place.

A solid gold coin named Canadian Royal Mint, made in the year 2007, is worth $ 1 million.

Despite a larger area than the United States, the U.S. in Canada Only 11 per cent of the population lives.

Canada got independence in 1982 and it became a new country.

Dinosaur Provincial Park in Canada has more than 500 remains of more than 40 species of dinosaurs.

According to one figure, more than 20 per cent of Canada’s population is born abroad.

60 per cent of the world’s population lives in polar bears in Canada.

Canada has its own Hollywood called Hollywood North.

Kanada has 42 national parks and 167 national historical sites.

More than 90 per cent of its population lives within 100 miles of the US-Canada border.

Manitoulin Island of Canada has got the title of being the world’s largest island of freshwater.

The first person to arrive in Canada is John Cabot who came here in 1497.

The history of Canada is more than 20 thousand years old and many caves have been found as proof of life here.

Originally published at https://www.mubahisa.in.

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