Canada is a huge country in the continent of North America. This huge country borders the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, the Arctic Ocean, and the United States of America. Most of Canada's human population lives along its southern border. For a page on Canadian explorers, cick here . Canada's land ranges from fertile agricultural plains in the south to freezing tundra in the north.
Cold winters characterize most of the rest of Canada.
The magnetic North Pole is within Nunavut. Parts of Canada are very mountainous. Canada has many mountain ranges, including the Appalachians, Torngats, and Laurentians in the eastern regions, the Rocky, Coastal, and Mackenzie ranges in the western regions, and Mount St. Elias and the Pelly Mountains in the northern country. Canada has about two million lakes. It runs through the Northwest Territories.