Nova Scotia (; Latin for "New Scotland"; ; ) is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces, and one of the four provinces which form Atlantic Canada. Its provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the second smallest of Canada's ten provinces, with an area of , including Cape Breton and another 3,800 coastal islands. As of 2016, the population was 923,598. Nova Scotia is the second most-densely populated province in Canada with .

"Nova Scotia" means "New Scotland" in Latin and is the recognized English language name for the province. In Scottish Gaelic, the province is called ", which also simply means "New Scotland". The province was first named in the 1621 Royal Charter granting the right to settle lands including modern Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick and the Gaspe Peninsula to Sir William Alexander in 1632.

Nova Scotia is Canada's smallest province in area after Prince Edward Island. The province's mainland is the Nova Scotia peninsula surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, including numerous bays and estuaries. Nowhere in Nova Scotia is more than from the ocean. Cape Breton Island, a large island to the northeast of the Nova Scotia mainland, is also part of the province, as is Sable Island, a small island notorious for its shipwrecks, approximately from the province's southern coast.

Based on the article and the following list of answers, write a list of questions.

1. Nova Scotia
2. New Scotland
3. Latin
4. yes
5. no
6. Canada
7. ten
8. three
9. 923,598
10. 2016
11. no
12. second
13. 1621
14. the Royal Charter
15. Sir William Alexander
16. 1632
17. Nova Scotia
18. yes
19. yes
20. the northeast

Numbered questions:
1. What is an example of a province?
2. What does that mean?
3. In what language?
4. Is it a Maritime province?
5. Is it the smallest?
6. What country is it in?
7. How many provinces does Canada have?
8. How many are Maritime?
9. What is the population of Nova Scotia?
10. As of when?
11. Is the province the most densely populated?
12. Where does it rank in that category?
13. When was the province first named
14. in what?
15. Who was granted the right to settle these lands
16. When could he start
17. What is the smallest province?
18. Is Cape Breton an island?
19. is it large?
20. What direction is it from Nova Scotia