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Canada by the Numbers

The facts about this country that sound made up and aren't. Learn them, then quiz whoever's nearest.

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Canada by the Numbers

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Guess first: does Canada have more lakes than the rest of the world put together?

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Yes. Canada has more lakes than every other country combined. There are so many that most of them don't even have names.

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Time10 min
You get5 facts, memorised
DifficultyEasyBarely a mess
SectionLearning

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    Yes. Canada has more lakes than every other country combined. There are so many that most of them don't even have names.

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    Canada, by a huge margin, because of all the islands in the north. Walk it and you'd cover more than 200,000 kilometres.

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    Four: Superior, Huron, Erie and Ontario. Michigan is the only one entirely inside the United States. Lambton County sits on Huron, the second biggest of the five by area.

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    Six. When it's noon in Sarnia, it's already 1:30 in Newfoundland. The half hour is real.

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    Just one. Russia. Canada is the second-largest country on Earth, bigger than the United States, China and Australia.

Why that works

Canada is enormous but most of the people live in a thin strip along the southern edge. That's why so much of it is lakes and coastline nobody has named or walked: the country is mostly empty, and empty land is where the strange records live.

Lambton County twist

Lake Huron, right on Lambton's doorstep, has the longest shoreline of any Great Lake once you count all its islands.