Canada

  Canada is a country that occupies a large part of North America and extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. To the north the country is bordered by the Arctic Ocean. It is the second largest country in the world by total area, surpassed only by Russia, and its common border with the United States, in the south and northwest, is the longest land border in the world. The lands occupied by Canada have been inhabited for millennia by different groups of aboriginal peoples. Beginning in the late 15th century, British, Portuguese and French expeditions explored and later settled along the country's Atlantic coast. France ceded almost all of its North American colonies in 1763 after the Seven Years' War. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies into a confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began with an addition of provinces and territories and a process of increasing the United Kin...