CanadaInteresting facts about Canada.

Canada is a sovereign state situated in the north of the North American continent.

Government

• Canada is a federation of ten provinces and three territories. Canada is a parliamentary democracy with Queen Elizabeth II as the formal head of state.

• The capital and political center of Canada is Ottawa.

Languages

• Canada is officially a bilingual federal state. French is the majority and official language in Quebec and is widely spoken in the province of New Brunswick. English is the majority language everywhere else except Nunavutu, where the majority of the population speaks languages of the indigenous Inuit.

• Canada is also a member of the Commonwealth and La Francophonie.

Nature in Canada

• Almost half of the territories of Canada is a relatively flat area formed by granite rocks. To the west of the country there is more than 800 km wide zone of the mountain. The Western system is divided into Kordillier Rocky Mountains, Mackenzie Mountains, coastlines and mountains St. Elijah.

• Canada's climate has considerable temperature fluctuations, mild summers and long cold winters and the far north of the Arctic climate.