CANADA : LAND AND AREA

Canada stretches 5,500 kilometers from Cape Spear, Newfoundland, to the Yukon territory-Alaska border. From Middle Island in Lake Erie to Cape Columbia, on Ellesmere Island, it measures 4,600 kilometers.
Only ten percent of Canada has ever been permanently settled. Canada being the second largest nation in the world has only half of one percent of its population.

Canada has 10 provinces and three territories, and nature has organized the land by ecosystems.

Out of the 20 ecozones Canada has, 15 are terrestrial and 5 marine. These are geographical areas with different combinations of climate, soils, landform, water features, plants, animal and people.

The North of Canada is the Arctic Cordillera, covered with peripheral snow and ice, the barren lands of northern Arctic and the southern Arctic with its tundra of moss and lichens. Together these three ecozones make up one-quarter of the total area of Canada.

The Inuit people of Canada has made North, their home for thousands of years.

The Arctic Codillera is a land scape of deep valley with extreme cold high winds, and lack of soil that leaves the upper reaches almost devoid of plants, animal and people.

The Northern Arctic is Canadas polar desert, and is covered with snow most of the year.
Moss and lichens thrive in thee polar desert.