Canada

About Canada

Canada occupies most of the region of North America, and is the world's second largest country by total area. Sharing a land border with the United States, Canada's has both English and French speaking regions.

Like New Zealand and Australia, Canada operates under a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy, the Queen of England being the official head of state.

Canada's land area covers 9,984,670 square kilometres, and the total population is 33,579,000 (2009 estimate).