Today we celebrate Canada Day and I know I'm majorly biased on this, but it really is a great place to live.To commemorate, here are some random facts about my home and native land:
-Canada has the world's longest coastline: 202 080 kilometres.
-The Trans-Canada Highway length (using the Perth-Peterborough-Parry Sound route) is 7604 kilometres. It is the longest national highway in the world.
-The world's largest island in a freshwater lake is Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron, 2765 square kilometres.
-Canada is the second largest country in the world, with 9,971,000 square kilometres of land.
-The world's highest tide is in the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia. The mean large tide range is 16.1 metres.
-And finally, Canada is the home of the following inventions: basketball, the electric light bulb, the electric range, the electron microscope, standard time, the television, the telephone, and the zipper.
Happy Birthday Canada!
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