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Canada (in English: Canada) is a country in North America is composed of 10 provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent stretching from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extends north into the Arctic Ocean. Canada is the second country worldwide in terms of total area. The limits of Canada shared with the United States from the south and northwest is the longest in the world.

Canada lands inhabited for thousands of years by different groups of indigenous people. With the late fifteenth century British and French campaigns began to explore the area and then Astotntha along the Atlantic coast. France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763 after the Seven Years' War. In 1867, with the union of three British colonies in North America through the confederation of Canada was formed as a federal entity, a sovereign includes four provinces. It began operation in which widened the area of ​​Canada and the expansion of self-rule for the United Kingdom. Demonstrated such independence through Westminster legislation in 1931 and culminating in the form of the law of Canada in 1982, which cut the legal dependence of Canada on the British Parliament.

 
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