Canada is a country in the northern part of
North America. Its
ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world's
second-largest country by total area and the
fourth-largest country by land area. Canada's sole border
with the United States is the world's longest bi-national land border. The majority of the country has a cold or severely cold winter climate, but southerly areas are warm in summer. Canada is sparsely populated, the majority of its land territory being dominated by forest and tundra and the
Rocky Mountains. It is highly
urbanized with 82 per cent of the 35.15 million people concentrated in large and medium-sized cities, many near the southern border. One third of the population lives in the three largest metropolitan areas:
Toronto,
Montreal and
Vancouver. Its capital is
Ottawa, and other major
urban areas include
Calgary,
Edmonton,
Quebec City,
Winnipeg and
Hamilton.