canada

Noun
  1. A nation in northern North America;
    The French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada (synset 108837973)
    "the border between the United States and Canada is the longest unguarded border in the world"
    associated with: department of justice canada, dojc - an agency of the Canadian government that provides litigation and legal advice and opinions to the government
    domain member region:
    is an instance of: north american country, north american nation - any country on the North American continent
    member holonym: canadian - a native or inhabitant of Canada
    belongs to:
    • british commonwealth, commonwealth of nations - an association of nations consisting of the United Kingdom and several former British colonies that are now sovereign states but still pay allegiance to the British Crown
    • nato, north atlantic treaty organization - an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security
    • british empire - a former empire consisting of Great Britain and all the territories under its control; reached its greatest extent at the end of World War I; it included the British Isles, British West Indies, Canada, British Guiana; British West Africa, British East Africa, India, Australia, New Zealand
    has:
    • baffin island - the 5th largest island and the largest island of Arctic Canada; lies between Greenland and Hudson Bay
    • canadian shield, laurentian highlands, laurentian plateau - a large plateau that occupies more than 40% of the land area of Canada; it extends from the Great Lakes northward to the Arctic Ocean
    • canadian maritime provinces, maritime provinces, maritimes - the collective name for the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island
    • alberta - one of the three prairie provinces in western Canada; rich in oil and natural gas and minerals
    • british columbia - a province in western Canada
    • manitoba - one of the three prairie provinces in central Canada
    • newfoundland and labrador - a Canadian province on the island of Newfoundland and on the mainland along the coast of the Labrador Sea; became Canada's 10th province in 1949
    • northwest territories - a large territory in northwestern Canada; part is now Nunavut
    • nunavut - an Arctic territory in northern Canada created in 1999 and governed solely by the Inuit; includes the eastern part of what was the Northwest Territories and most of the islands of the Arctic Archipelago
    • arctic archipelago - all the islands that lie to the north of mainland Canada and the Arctic Circle
    • ontario - a prosperous and industrialized province in central Canada
    • quebec - the largest province of Canada; a French colony from 1663 to 1759 when it was lost to the British
    • saskatchewan - one of the three prairie provinces in west central Canada
    • yukon, yukon territory - a territory in northwestern Canada; site of the Klondike gold rush in the 1890s
    • columbia, columbia river - a North American river; rises in southwestern Canada and flows southward across Washington to form the border between Washington and Oregon before emptying into the Pacific; known for its salmon runs in the spring
    • great lakes - a group of five large, interconnected lakes in central North America
    • hudson bay - an inland sea in northern Canada
    • labrador peninsula, labrador-ungava peninsula - a peninsular region of eastern Canada between Hudson Bay and the Labrador Sea; contains most of Quebec and the mainland part of Newfoundland and Labrador
    • mackenzie, mackenzie river - a Canadian river; flows into the Beaufort Sea
    • niagara, niagara river - a river flowing from Lake Erie into Lake Ontario; forms boundary between Ontario and New York
    • ottawa, ottawa river, outaouais - a river in southeastern Canada that flows along the boundary between Quebec and Ontario to the Saint Lawrence River near Montreal
    • saint lawrence, saint lawrence river, st. lawrence, st. lawrence river - a North American river; flows into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the North Atlantic
    • yukon, yukon river - a North American river that flows westward from the Yukon Territory through central Alaska to the Bering Sea
    is a part of: north america - a continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama

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