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Last week's #geoweirdness thread about France 🇫🇷 really resonated, thanks everyone for sharing 🙏

This week we'll stay (at least partially) in the French-speaking world and consider the geographic oddities of Canada 🇨🇦

#geoweirdness #canada

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Map of Canada
2/ Canada 🇨🇦 is enormous, the 2nd largest country in the world behind Russia 🇷🇺. Twice the size of the EU 🇪🇺

Here's a great Dymaxion projection of the world with countries ranked by size.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_area

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Dymaxion projection of the world
3/ Canada 🇨🇦 is subdivided into 10 provinces and 3 territories. They are administered slightly differently, territories control less of their own affairs. Nunavut is the newest (and largest) territory and was established in 1999

https://answersblurb.com/why-does-canada-have-provinces-and-territories

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Map of Canada showing provinces and territories
4/ Newfoundland (then known as the Dominion of Newfoundland, now the province of Newfoundland and Labrador) was originally it's own entity within the British Empire and only joined Canada in 1949.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_of_Newfoundland

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Map of Newfoundland and Labrador
5/ As we noted in last week's France 🇫🇷 thread, just off the coast of Newfoundland are the French islands of 🇵🇲 Saint Pierre and Miquelon (ISO code "PM"), last tiny remnants of "New France"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_France

The French influence of course lives on in Canada's largest province Quebec

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec

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Map of the French islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Map showing location of the French islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon
there are Francophones in every province in Canada, not just Quebec! French-speaking communities in New Brunswick have a distinct culture and history from Franco-ontariens or Francophones in British Columbia.