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|language = English, French
|capital = [[Ottawa]]
|pop = 3134,612001,897000 (2009 est.)|currency = Canadian Dollar($CAD)
|hitch = {{good}} to {{very good}}
|neighbour = ([[Greenland]]), [[Saint Pierre and Miquelon]] (''incorporated''), [[United States of America]]
}}
'''For specific information about provinces and territories, have a look at see the bottom of the page.'''
'''Canada''' is the northernmost country of [[North America]] and is composed of ten provinces and three territories. English and French are the two official languages of the country, English , being spoken by 2/3 of the population , is the majority language in most provinces while French is the main official language in the province of Quebec but widely spoken in New Brunswick and some areas of Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, and Manitoba. Inuktitut is the main language in Nunavut and has official status there but English is widely spoken. So for For the convenience of the common hitchhiker these the provinces and territories are discussed in detail along with their capitals in the following their separate pages.
Canada is a wide vast country where (the second biggest in the world) and many visitors do not really realise realize its scale or extreme temperatures prior to their arrival and neither realise the various extreme temperature that can suddenly happen and hit at different season. Certain nothern northern rural regions in each provinces are inhabited by a scarce few or even absent no permanent population. It might not always be bright to adventure by yourself into some wild or less inhabited part of the country without the proper equipement equipment nor having registered yourself to some local authorities prior to do such a journey. As a simple reminder, the density of population is about 3,.2 habitants/km² and about 75 % of that population lives in the south by the border with the USA. It is common and normal in some part parts of the country to drive few hundreds km a hundred kilometres without any living soul in the area. Noneless to sayNonetheless, even if the country bear bears some similitude with its southern and only neighbour, the [[United States]], the cultural and life approach of the population is quite unique.
For a journey over the country, the [[Transcanadian Highway]] is the main road crossing the country coast to coast. The highway system is specific to every provinces and usually quite comprehensive.
