Canada is a thriving, multicultural country set in a vast, and spectacularly diverse landscape that stretches, as her motto says, "Mari usque ad mare" - from sea to sea. From the Pacific, over the snow-capped Rockies, under the endless sky across the wide expanse of the prairies, and through the rugged Canadian Shield, to the Atlantic, Canada also has exciting cities, friendly towns, and no end to the great outdoors. We're big on size (the second-largest country in the world, at 9,984,670 sq km) and small on population (over 37 million), so we have plenty of room to welcome you!

Some stats from the CIA World Factbook:

• Population: 37.6 million (2020 est.)
  
• Life expectancy at birth: 83.4 years (2020 est.)
  
• Health Expenditure: 10.6% of GDP (2017)
  
• Physician Density: 2.31 physicians/1,000 population (2017)
• Hospital Bed Density: 2.5 beds/1,000 population (2017)

Some Facts about Canada:

• Canada has six primary time zones, from east to west: Newfoundland Time Zone, Atlantic Time Zone, Eastern Time, Central Time Zone, Mountain Time Zone, and the Pacific Time Zone.
  
• Canada is made up of 10 provinces and three territories.
  
• Canada shares the longest land border in the world with its neighbour the United States, at 8,891 km (5,525 miles)
• A 2012 OECD study said that Canada was the world's most educated country, with more than half of Canadians possessing tertiary education.
  
• Canada has the longest coastline in the world, at 202,080 km (125,566 miles).
• Some of Canada's national parks are bigger than some countries: Nahanni National Park Reserve in the Northwest Territories, at 30,050 square km (11,602 square miles) is larger than Albania and Israel, and Wood Buffalo National Park in Alberta and the Northwest Territories, at 44,807 square km (17,300 square miles) is bigger than Denmark and Switzerland
  
• Natural Resources Canada says that Canada has 348 million hectares (859,926,727 acres) of forest land. This represents 9% of the world’s forests and 24% of the world’s boreal forests. Forests dominate the Canadian landscape almost everywhere except the Arctic and the Prairies. And with nearly 10 hectares (25 acres) of forest per person, Canadians have more forest area per capita than do residents in most other countries.
• Canada has more lake area than any other country in the world, with 563 lakes larger than 100 square km (39 square miles), as well as the most lakes of any country in the world.