Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three
territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends
from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean.
Canada is the world's second-largest country by total area, and its
common border with the United States is the world's longest land border
shared by the same two countries.
The land that is now Canada has been inhabited for millennia by various
Aboriginal peoples. Beginning in the late 15th century, British and
French colonial expeditions explored, and later settled, the region's
Atlantic coast. France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America
to the United Kingdom in 1763 after the French and Indian War, which
was essentially the North American theatre of the Seven Years' War. In
1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through
Confederation, Canada was
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