Official status
No established state religion.
Status reference
Practice Canada
No questions here on Civilizations, Historical flags — nothing recorded for Canada.
Canada
CA / CAN 56.0°, -109.0°
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the second-largest country by total area, with the longest coastline of any country. Its border with the United States is the longest international land border. The country is characterized by a wide range of both meteorologic and geological regions. With a population of over 41 million, it has widely varying population densities, with the majority residing in its urban areas and large areas being sparsely populated. Its capital is Ottawa and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
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WHAT PEOPLE ARE CALLED
Canadian
These are English demonyms for people from Canada. A demonym describes a connection to a place; it does not mean everyone shares an ethnicity, language or religion.
Demonym source: mledoze/countries · Download the attributed dataset (ODbL)SAME LAND, DIFFERENT WORLDS
Civilizations, flags & standards
Modern borders are a starting point for exploring the past. These cultures and states occupied some of the same land; they were not the same country. Dates describe each civilization or state as a whole, not continuous rule over every place listed.
A sourced civilization and flag trail has not been added for Canada yet. No ancient flag is inferred from the modern one.
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Turning points
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A few starting points, not a complete history.
- Before European colonization
Diverse First Nations and Inuit societies already inhabit these lands.
- 1867
Confederation brings four provinces into the Dominion of Canada.
- 1982
The Constitution is patriated and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms takes effect.
Religion: state & society
Practice this section → 5 questions
An official religion is a legal status. The largest religious group is a population measure. Neither describes every person's beliefs.
Religious affiliation
Largest religious group: Christianity
2021 censusChristianity53.3%
No religion or secular perspectives34.6%
Selected census categories; affiliation is not a measure of religious practice.
Affiliation source & methodologyBEYOND THE MAP
Canada in the study desk
Places and things the general-knowledge library connects to Canada. Open one to follow its connections, then practise them with typed recall.
Geography 16
Mount LoganBarbeau PeakMount ColumbiaMount FairweatherMount RobsonMount Saint EliasThor PeakKing Peak
Food & drink 3
Choose your next rabbit hole
Where it is
Languages
Share of the population that speaks each. Click one to see every country that speaks it.
What it sells, and to whom
Every line is a thread: click a commodity or a partner to see who else trades in it.
Trades with
Industries
Farms and fisheries
- wheat
- rapeseed
- maize
- milk
- barley
- soybeans
Largest cities
| Toronto | 2,794,356 |
| Montréal | 1,762,949 |
| Calgary | 1,306,784 |
| Ottawa capital | 1,017,449 |
| Edmonton | 1,010,899 |
Wars and conflicts
Conflicts this country is attached to. Click one to see the others. Each says what kind of claim it is: a principal belligerent is hand-checked against the modern state that succeeded the power that fought, while a recorded participant comes from the bulk import, which does not separate combat from funding, basing, occupation or reconstruction. Neither list is complete, so a country missing from a war may still have taken part — which is why the quiz no longer asks who fought in what.
World War II1939–1945
principal belligerent
World War I1914–1918
principal belligerent
War of 18121812–1815
principal belligerent
Gulf War1990–1991
principal belligerent
War in Afghanistan (2001-2021)2001–2021
principal belligerent
First Libyan Civil War2011
principal belligerent
Korean War1950–1953
principal belligerent
Kosovo War1998–1999
recorded participant
Second Boer War1899–1902
recorded participant
Fenian raids1866–1871
recorded participant
Form of government
Federal parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy.
Money, belief and alliances
Money
Belongs to
Organization of American States
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
North American Free Trade Agreement
Arctic Council
Organisation internationale de la Francophonie
United Nations
World Meteorological Organization
International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance
International Energy Agency
International Development Association
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
NATO
International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes
Australia Group
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
Asian Development Bank
Climate and geography
varies from temperate in south to subarctic and arctic in north
Climate zone
Highest point
Landmarks and landscapes
Northern hemisphere.
Land borders (1)
In charge right now
Figures from its history
John A. Macdonald
First prime minister
Sir John Alexander Macdonald was the first prime minister of Canada, serving from 1867 to 1873 and from 1878 until his death in 1891.
Pierre Trudeau
Prime minister, 1968-1984
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau was a Canadian politician, lawyer, jurist, academic, author, and journalist who served as the 15th prime minister of Canada from 1968 to 1979 and from 1980 to 1984.
Terry Fox
Runner and cancer-research campaigner
Terrance Stanley Fox was a Canadian athlete, humanitarian, and cancer research activist.
Leaders before them
Checked facts
Most of this page is imported in bulk and carries no source of its own. These entries were checked by hand against the source named, and are reapplied after every dataset rebuild so a refetch cannot quietly put the old value back.
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Member of nato
— Full member states only, as the organisation itself lists them.
The imported member_of list is out of date for this organisation and is not asked about.
Source · true as of 2026-09-11 · checked 2026-09-11
Corrected in an AI-assisted review of the imported data (2026-09-22), not yet checked against a named source: famous, government type, past leaders, population, wars.