By land area alone, however, Canada ranks fourth, the difference being due to it having the world's largest proportion of fresh water lakes. By total area (including its waters), Canada is the second-largest country in the world, after Russia. To the southeast Canada shares a maritime boundary with France's overseas collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, the last vestige of New France. Greenland is to the northeast with a shared border on Hans Island. Canada stretches from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west to the north lies the Arctic Ocean. Permafrost, cyclonic storms, tornadoes, earthquakes, forest firesĬanada has a vast geography that occupies much of the continent of North America, sharing a land border with the contiguous United States to the south and the U.S. Iron ore, nickel, zinc, copper, gold, lead, molybdenum, potash, diamonds, silver, fish, timber, wildlife, coal, petroleum, natural gas, hydropower Mostly plains and mountains in west, to highlands (low mountains) in the south east, and east, to flatlands in the Great lakes Temperate, or humid continental to subarctic or arctic in north, and tundra in mountainous areas, and the far north
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