Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Ottawa
- Region
- Americas, North America
- Population
- 41,651,653 (2025)
- Area
- 9,984,670 km²
- Currency
- Canadian dollar (CAD)
- Languages
- English, French, Inuktitut
- Calling code
- +1
- Internet domain
- .ca
- ISO codes
- CA, CAN, 124
- Time zone
- UTC-8:00 to UTC-3:30
- United Nations
- Member state
- Postal code pattern
- @#@ #@# (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
Canada covers about 9,984,670 square kilometres. By area it ranks 3rd among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Antarctica and a little larger than United States. It shares a land border with 1 neighbour: United States. Its centre lies at about 60° north, 95° west, in the northern hemisphere.
Neighbours
People
About 41.7 million people live in Canada (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 38th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure, with about 0.51 percent of the world's people. On average there are 4.2 people to each square kilometre. About 83 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 82 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: English, French, Inuktitut. A person from Canada is called Canadian.
Money and economy
The currency is the Canadian dollar (code CAD, symbol $). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 2.32 trillion (2025), which is about US$ 55,698 for each person (2025).
Time
Canada spans 23 time zone areas, from UTC-8:00 to UTC-3:30. Clocks are moved for daylight saving time in part of the year.
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Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.
Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Toronto | 2,794,356 |
| Montréal | 1,762,949 |
| Calgary | 1,306,784 |
| Ottawa | 1,017,449 |
| Edmonton | 1,010,899 |
| Winnipeg | 749,607 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in North America
Bermuda, Greenland, Mexico, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, United States Minor Outlying Islands. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.