Интересные факты о Канаде

interesting facts about Canada

1.Canada is the second largest country in the world after Russia. Its territory is 9.9 million km2 and includes 6 time zones.

2. The u.S.-Canada border is the longest in the world. It is 8,891 km long.

3. Canada has the longest coastline in the world - 202,080 km

4. North American beaver is the national animal of Canada.

• 5. The name of the country has a funny origin. When the French explorer Jacques Cartier reached the new world, the natives invited them to kanata, i.e. the village. The researchers decided that this was the name of the country. Canada was later transformed into Canada.

6. The Canadian flag, informally referred to as the Maple Leaf and l'Unifoli (in French, "one-leaf"), first appeared as the official flag on 15 February 1965, almost 100 years after the country's founding (in 1867). Since then, 15 February in Canada is celebrated National Flag Day.

7. Canada is the most educated country in the world, with more than half of its citizens having higher education.

8. Canada is home to about 1.3 million people of Ukrainian origin (most of whom have Canadian citizenship). Ukrainians are the ninth largest ethnic group in Canada. Canada, in turn, is the third country in the world, after Ukraine and Russia, in terms of the number of Ukrainians living in it.

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9. Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined. There are 250,000 in Ontario alone. They contain about one-fifth of the world's freshwater reserves.

• 10. Yonge Street is a street connecting the shores of Lake Ontario in Toronto with Lake Simcoe. Until 1999, the Guinness Book of Records repeated the popular misconception that the length of the street is 1,896 km, which means Yong Street is the longest street in the world. The error occurred because Yong Street was identified with the rest of Ontario's Highway 11. In fact, the length of Yonge Street is 86 km, which is also quite a lot.

11. Twice in history, Americans invaded Canada, in 1775 and 1812. And both times they lost.

12. Car license plates in the northwestern Canadian Northwest Territories are shaped like polar bears.

• 13. Canada is the birthplace of hockey. The first professional hockey team was established in Canada in 1904. The most famous hockey museum, the Hockey Hall of Fame, is located in Toronto and is a gallery of development for both Canadian and European hockey. The famous Stanley Cup is on display in the Hockey Hall of Fame museum.

14. Canada entered World War II after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a day earlier than the United States itself.

15. Most of Canada has less earth-gravity than the rest of the Earth. This phenomenon was discovered in the 1960s.

16. A Canadian police officer can issue a "positive ticket" to a person who does something good.