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Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from
the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and
northward into the Arctic Ocean. It is the world's second largest country by
total area, and shares land borders with the United States to the south
and northwest.
The lands have been inhabited for millennia by various groups of aboriginal
peoples. Beginning in the late 15th century, British and French expeditions
explored and later settled the Atlantic coast. France ceded nearly all of
its colonies in North America in 1763 after the Seven Years War. In 1867,
with the union of three British North American colonies through
Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four
provinces. This began an accretion of additional
provinces and territories and a process of increasing autonomy from the
United Kingdom, highlighted by the Statute of Westminster in 1931 and
culminating in the Canada Act in 1982 which severed the vestiges of legal
dependence on the British parliament.
A federation now comprising ten provinces and three territories, Canada is a
parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy with Queen Elizabeth
II as its head of state. It is a bilingual and multicultural country, with
both English and French as official languages at the federal level.
Technologically advanced and industrialized, Canada maintains a diversified
economy that is heavily reliant upon its abundant natural resources and upon
trade—particularly with the United States, with which Canada has a long and
sometimes difficult relationship.
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