Anyone Else Blown Away By How Big Canada Really Is?
@danishcanadian (28955)
Canada
October 27, 2009 12:52am CST
I'm sitting here listening to the BBC World Service, talking all about what happened in Yugoslavia in the 90s. Serbia and Bosnia are back in the news now with recent news of trials from the Hague.
I started researching these countries on line, and looking at the maps. I'm blown away by the fact that most of the countries in Europe are smaller than the individual US States (I was looking them up on the CIA World Factbook), and those States are so much smaller than the Canadian provinces (I'm Canadian), and I'm just sitting here blown away by how BIIIIIG Canada is!!!
Anyone else amazed, when they stop and think about this?
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8 responses
@maximax8 (31046)
• United Kingdom
17 Nov 09
Yes, Canada is a huge country. The largest country that I have been to so far in my lifetime is Australia. It took lots of time to travel from one place to the next. I have considered buying a train pass for traveling across Canada on. The train line goes all the way from Vancouver to Halifax and up to Churchill. I live in Europe and know that most of our countries are small by comparison. I have visited some small countries like Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Canadian provinces are quite large. Compared to the USA and the number of states it has Canada doesn't have many provinces. Australia doesn't have many states. I hope to visit Canada next year and visit one part of it.
@Ohara_1983 (4117)
• Kuwait
28 Oct 09
really? wow! but i never seen or been there though. Just my teacher, she work there as a caregiver and also some my friends they said that "CANADA" is a nice and beautiful place.
@Idlewild (6090)
• United States
28 Oct 09
Yeah, it's amazing how huge it is. I've been in Toronto and Montreal and Vancouver, and as far north as Cambridge Bay in Nunavut-- 150 miles north of the Arctic Circle. That's an amazing place that looks like it hasn't changed much since prehistoric times: tundra and rock as far as the eye can see, and all kinds of unusual creatures like musk ox and arctic hares. Fascinating place. And Canada stretches further north than that, even.
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
31 Oct 09
How big it is and how much of it is frozen tundra!!! Just kidding...
@burrito88 (2774)
• United States
27 Oct 09
Yugoslavia should never really have been a country because of the different nationalities and religious groups. The were thrown together after World War I after the break-up of the Austria-Hungrian Empire, another country tat should not have really existed. Speaking of break-ups, is Quebec still talking about trying to leave Canada? I remember that kind of talk was big about 25 years ago. There was speculation (here in the US) that if Canada split in that fashion, the Maritime Provinces might consider joining the US and eventually some of the western provinces. It's been a good while since I've been to Quebec, but I still think there are regions where they don't like English speakers. (Considering the wars tha Bush got us into, I can see good reasons for not joining.)
