Canada became a country on July 1, 1867, when the British North America Act was passed by the British Parliament.

Canada is a Federal Parliamentary Democracy and Constitutional Monarchy

Currency; Canadian dollar ($)

Internet TLD: .ca

Phone Calling Code: 1

Official languages: English and French

The Capital: of Canada is Ottawa, Ontario.

Canada is the second largest country in the world after Russia, with an area of 9,984,670 km.

The population of Canada is 32,207,113. It has the fourth lowest population density in the world, with only three people living per square kilometer.

More than 75% per cent of Canadians live in cities and towns. 31% of the population lives in the largest cities of Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver.

Six cities in Canada have a population of over 1 million: Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and Ottawa.

Toronto is the largest city of Canada, with a population of more than 5 million people.

Multiculturalism was officially recognized in 1988 with the Multiculturalism Act.

The life expectancy of a Canadian woman is 80 years and a Canadian man is 73 years

Canada has two national sports; Lacrosse as the country's national summer sport, and Ice Hockey as the national winter sport.

At 6050 m above sea level, Mount Logan in the Yukon is Canada's tallest peak.

Almost 9% (891,163 square kilometers (344,080 sq mi)) of Canada's total area is covered by freshwater.

Great Bear Lake is the largest lake in Canada with an area of 31 326 km.

The longest river is the Mackenzie River flowing 4241 km through the NWT.

Canada’s dairy industry produces more than 665 different varieties of cheese from goat, sheep & cow’s milk.

Canada exports durum wheat to many of the world’s top pasta producers like Italy & Turkey.

Canada is the world's second-largest producer and exporter of blueberry, with British Columbia the number one highbush (cultivated) blueberry-growing region in the world.

Canada is the biggest producer of maple syrup. The Canadian province of Quebec is responsible for about three-quarters of the world's output.

World’s longest coastline at 202 080 km

Longest street in the world. Yonge Street in Ontario starts at Lake Ontario, and runs north through Ontario to the Minnesota border, a distance of almost 2000 kilometers.

World's longest common border with the United States of America, 8890 kilometers long, which is also the only unprotected border in the world.

Longest highway in the world, the Trans-Canada Highway which is over 7604 kilometers in length.

Canada contains 9% of the world's renewable water supply.

One-tenth of the world's forests are in Canada.

Canada holds the record for the most gold medals ever won at the Winter Olympics, 14 Golds at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.

It is the largest producer of ‘Icewine’, a sweet dessert wine.

It is one of the top five world's producers of gold, copper, zinc, nickel, aluminum, and natural gas

It is the world's largest country that borders only one country, the United States of America

According to the United Nations Human Development Index, Canada has got the highest quality of life in the world making it an ideal place to live and raise a family.

Vancouver in British Columbia is tied with Zurich Switzerland for having the highest quality of life of any other city in the world.

The average life expectancy at birth is 81.16 years – the sixth highest in the world.

Canada has the highest tertiary education enrollment in the world, which includes locals as well as international students.

Toronto dwellers hold more university degrees than any other big city in the world.

Canada has one of the highest per-capita immigration rates in the world.

The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell in Brantford, Ontario (first patent obtained 1876).

The first practical electron microscope was constructed at the University of Toronto.

The Blackberry Smartphone was developed in Ontario, at Research in Motion’s Waterloo offices.

The baseball glove

Basketball

The electric light bulb

The electric range

Kerosene

The electric wheelchair

Standard time

The cardiac pacemaker

Insulin

The foghorn

The first snowmobile

A bear cub named Winnipeg was exported from Canada to the London Zoo in 1915. A little boy named Christopher Robin Milne loved to visit Winnipeg (or Winnie for short) and his love for the bear cub inspired the stories written by his father, A.A. Milne, about Winnie-the-Pooh.

Many famous authors have come from Canada, including Lucy Maud Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables), Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale), and Alice Munro (Lives of Girls and Women).

Sandy Gardiner, a journalist with the Ottawa Journal in the 60’s coined the term ‘Beatlemania’ while he was writing a story about the Beatles.

The Ice Hotel in Quebec, known as Hotel de Glace is created every year using 400 tons of ice and 12,000 tons of snow. It melts away every summer and is recreated every winter.

Toronto’s Rogers Centre is home to the largest Sony big screen in the world, measuring 10 m x 33.6 m.

The Niagara Falls, one of the largest and most popular waterfalls, is in Ontario.

In British Columbia, towards the southernmost corner of the Okanagan Valley in Osoyoos, is a 15 miles long semi-desert with over 100 rare plants, and over 300 rare animals. It is also the only desert in the world that has a long boardwalk for people to walk on.

The West Edmonton Mall in Edmonton, Alberta, is the world's fifth largest shopping mall and contains the world's largest indoor amusement park.