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Canada: map and facts
Canada is in Northern America. It has about 41.7 million people (2025), the 38th largest population. It covers 9,894,508 km², the 2nd largest by area. That is about 4.2 people per km². Its highest point is Mount Logan, at 5,959 m. The longest river on its map is the Yukon, 3,190 km from source to mouth.
Facts
- Population: 41,651,653 (2025, World Bank)
- Area: 9,894,508 km² (area as drawn on this map)
- Capital: Ottawa
- Highest point: Mount Logan, 5,959 m (Wikidata)
- Forest: 42% of the land (2024, World Bank)
Rivers
The longest rivers on the map of Canada, with the length of each whole river (Wikidata):
- Yukon: 3,190 km
- Columbia: 2,000 km
- Peace: 1,923 km
- Mackenzie: 1,738 km
- North Saskatchewan: 1,380 km
- Fraser: 1,375 km
- Ottawa: 1,271 km
- Athabasca: 1,231 km
- St. Lawrence: 1,197 km
- Liard: 1,115 km
Also on the map: Back, Thelon, La Grande, Nelson, Saskatchewan, Stikine, Slave, Teslin, St. Clair and Niagara.
Mountains and landscapes
Its highest peaks:
- Mount Logan: 5,959 m (its highest point)
- Mount Fairweather: 4,671 m
- Mount Waddington: 4,019 m
- Mount Robson: 3,954 m
- Mount Sir Sandford: 3,519 m
- Ulysses Mountain: 3,024 m
- Keele Peak: 2,972 m
- Mount Roosevelt: 2,798 m
Mountain ranges: Rocky Mountains, Appalachian Mountains, Cascade Range, Coast Mountains, Mackenzie Mountains, Columbia Mountains, Selwyn Mountains, Torngat Mountains, Birch Mountains, Caribou Mountains, Cassiar Mountains and Ogilvie Mountains.
Plateaus, plains, deserts and other regions: Arctic Archipelago, Canadian Shield, Great Plains, Queen Elizabeth Islands, Barren Grounds, Parry Islands, Yukon Plateau, Cumberland Peninsula, Fraser Plateau, Gaspé Peninsula, Haida Gwaii and Laurentian Mountains.
Land
Land cover seen from satellites (NASA MODIS, 2024): grassland 20%, wooded savanna 18.4%, savanna 14.4%, evergreen conifer forest 10.4%, open shrubland 9.4%, mixed forest 6.7%.
Landforms, worked out from the height of the land (USGS GMTED2010): plains 33.4%, plateaus 28.6%, hills 21.7%, mountains 16.2%.
Forests covered 42% of its land in 2024, up from 40.2% in 1990 (World Bank).
Minerals and fuels
- World #1 in potash among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #2 in niobium among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #4 in oil among the countries EIA lists (2025)
- World #4 in gold among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #4 in nickel among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #4 in platinum-group metals among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #5 in natural gas among the countries EIA lists (2024)
- World #5 in salt among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #6 in mica among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #6 in sulfur among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #7 in iron ore among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #7 in cobalt among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #7 in titanium among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #8 in lithium among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #8 in graphite among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #10 in molybdenum among the countries USGS lists (2025)
Neighbours
Canada shares land borders with Greenland and United States on this map.
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Sources
India’s boundaries are drawn according to India’s official position, simplified for small-scale maps (data: Natural Earth, India view). Each figure shows its year and source; some are rounded. Data release 2026.2.
- Natural Earth (naturalearthdata.com), public domain. Boundaries follow India's official position (Natural Earth's India point of view). Terms
- GMTED2010 courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey (Danielson and Gesch 2011, USGS Open-File Report 2011-1073). Terms
- Friedl, M., Sulla-Menashe, D. (2022). MODIS/Terra+Aqua Land Cover Type Yearly L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V061. NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC. doi:10.5067/MODIS/MCD12Q1.061. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL): UN Population Division, national statistical offices (2025 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Forest area (% of land area) (AG.LND.FRST.ZS): FAO, FAOSTAT (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- Wikidata (CC0): names, capitals, peak heights and river lengths, checked by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- Credit: U.S. Geological Survey, Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 data release (doi:10.5066/P1WKQ63T). Terms
- Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (2026-09-03). Terms
- Landforms worked out by Make Me Smarter from GMTED2010.
- Some figures corrected by Make Me Smarter from published references: Australian Bureau of Statistics; Atlas of Canada; CIA World Factbook (archived); FAO; FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025; FSM Statistics; GeoNames; Gilbertson & Gilbertson's GPS surveys of national high points; INEGI (Mexico); Peaklist.org; PeakVisor; Government of the Pitcairn Islands; Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program; Statistics Finland; UN Demographic Yearbook; UN World Population Prospects 2024; Wikidata; Wikipedia.
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