Canada

A satellite composite image of Canada. Boreal forests prevail on the rocky Canadian Shield. Ice and tundra are prominent in the Arctic. Glaciers are visible in the Canadian Rockies and Coast Mountains. Flat and fertile Prairies facilitate agriculture. The Great Lakes feed the St. Lawrence River (in the southeast) where lowlands host much of Canada's population.

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. A federation now comprising ten provinces and three territories, Canada 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 had a long and complex relationship.

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Places, projects and networks

• Green Communities Canada

• Alberta

• British Columbia

• Vancouver
• Ecovillages British Columbia

• Ontario

• Toronto
• Plan It Green, Strathroy-Caradoc

• Quebec

• Manitoba

Projects and networks by topic please see Canada links

International rankings

Organization	Survey	Ranking
United Nations Development Programme	Human Development Index	4 out of 177
The Economist	The World in 2005 - Worldwide quality-of-life index, 2005	14 out of 111
Yale University/Columbia University	Environmental Sustainability Index, 2005 (pdf)	6 out of 146
The Economist	Global Peace Index	8 out of 121
Fund for Peace/ForeignPolicy.com	Failed States Index, 2007	168 out of 177

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