Canada

Canada

Canada ranks 16th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Netherlands, Turkey, and India. Memorable people born in present day Canada include Leonard Cohen, Leslie Nielsen, and Alice Munro. Memorable people who died in Canada include Alexander Graham Bell, Marshall McLuhan, and Glenn Gould. Canada has been the birth place of many actors and hockey players and the death place of many politicians and writers.

Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres, making it the world's second-largest country by total area. Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi), is the world's longest bi-national land border. Canada's capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Read more on Wikipedia