Map of Canada

Canada is located in North America. Its territory lies in the northern and western hemispheres, centred near 60.0° N, 95.0° W. It shares land borders with 1 country — United States — and also has its own coastline. Within North America, a continent of 23 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, Canada is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Canada shares land frontiers with the following 1 country. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Canada covers about 9,984,670 km² (3,855,103 sq mi). That makes it the 2nd-largest country in the world by area and the largest country in North America by area.

It is home to a population of roughly 41,651,653, the 37th-largest in the world and the 3rd-largest in North America, accounting for about 6.9% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Canada has an average population density of about 4 people per km². Among the 23 countries of North America it stands 3rd by population and 1st by area.

The seat of government is Ottawa, and the official currency is the Canadian dollar (CAD, $), and the main official languages are English and French. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes time zones UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00, UTC-04:00 and UTC-03:30.

Canada carries the ISO country codes CA and CAN, dials on the international calling code +1 and uses the .ca internet domain.

Canada shares its land borders with 1 country, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are United States (capital Washington, D.C., about 340,110,988 people).

By area, Canada is larger than 1 of these neighbours and smaller than 0 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 60.0° N, 95.0° W and opens at zoom level 3, framing Canada within North America. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Ottawa. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Canada lies about 6,660 km from the equator, in the northern and western hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Canada spans 6 time zones, from UTC-08:00 to UTC-03:30, reflecting the spread of its territory across the globe. Each is expressed as an offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC); where a country covers several zones, the official local time can differ from one part of it to another.

The official currency is the Canadian dollar (CAD, $).

The official languages are English and French, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +1 and websites commonly use the .ca internet domain.

In short, Canada is a coastal country in North America, sharing land borders with 1 country. Its capital is Ottawa. Canada has a population of about 41,651,653 and covers around 9,984,670 km² (3,855,103 sq mi), ranking it 37th in the world by population and 2nd by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Canada.

The flag of Canada is composed of a red vertical band on the hoist and fly sides and a central white square that is twice the width of the vertical bands. A large eleven-pointed red maple leaf is centered in the white square.

The flag of Canada is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.