- With 9,971,000 square kilometers of area, Canada is the second largest country in the world, behind Russia.
- An unusual fact about Canada is its name origin, it comes from a St. Lawrence Iroquoian word, kanata, which means village or settlement.
- The glove for baseball was invented in Canada in 1883.
- The Niagara Falls, one of the largest and most popular waterfalls is in Ontario.
- With 243,000 kms of shore, Canada has the longest coastline in the world.
- Canada has two national sports; Lacrosse as the country's national summer sport, and Ice Hockey as the national winter sport.
- Canada also has the smallest jail of the world in Rodney, Ontario. It covers area of 24.3 sq. mtrs (about 270 sq ft).
- Toronto is the largest city of Canada. It’s home to more than 5 million people and its dwellers are known to hold more university educations than any country in the world.
- Canada economy is the ninth biggest economy of the world.
- Santa Claus is believed to be from Canada.
- Canada is the eighth biggest trader in the world. Amidst all producers of natural gas, copper, zinc, nickel, aluminum, and gold in the world, Canada comes in the top five.
- Many great inventions, like basketball, the electric light bulb, the electric range, the electron microscope, standard time, the television, the telephone, and the zipper, took birth in Canada.
- Canada is also known to be the fifth largest energy producer; it provides electricity to the U.S. too.
- The country shares the world's longest common border with the United States of America, which is also the only unprotected border in the world.
- A funny fact about Canada's city of Montreal, sometimes called The City of Churches, is that it has more churches than houses!
- Half of Canada is covered with forests, which should not be surprising, considering one-tenth of the world's forests are here. It is also home to the polar and the grizzly bear.
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