The name Canada is due to a linguistic misunderstanding that occurred in the sixteenth century when the French explorer "Jacques Cartier" heard the Iroquois tribes referring to their settlement as "Kanata", which means a village or settlement, and because of its frequent use the explorer thought it was the name of the country.
Canada recorded the lowest temperature in recorded history of 81 degrees below zero in 1947.
Canadian residents keep their car doors unlocked so they can escape polar bears.
Canada possesses more lakes than the world’s lakes combined, as it has nearly 2 million lakes and covers about 8% of the land area. Canada shares four of the five Great Lakes with the United States, and they are the largest freshwater source in the world.
More than 50% of Canada’s land is covered with thick forest chains, where it owns 10% of the remaining forests in the world and 20% of the remaining wild places in the world. Sweden, Uruguay, France and the United Kingdom combined.
Canada is famous for being one of the richest countries in the world because of its strong economy and GDP rates, as well as its people are characterized by cultural tolerance and acceptance of others, it is an attractive country for immigrants.
Hudson Bay, Canada, knows that gravity decreases significantly in it compared to other regions of the planet, which makes a person’s weight less than twice that of his normal weight, and because of the low impact of gravity in that region a person can easily jump at an unusual height.
75% of Canadians live 100 miles from the US border because of the cold weather in the north of the country.
China and India are the largest exporters of immigrants to Canada, but there are many immigrants from Korea, the Middle East and East Asia. Canada is home to more than 10% of the world's refugees.
In 1943 for one day, the Canadian government considered a room in a Canadian hospital as Dutch land in order to give birth to one of the princesses as a Dutch citizen, which is one of the Dutch requirements to maintain her title as a princess and since that day the Netherlands annually sends thousands of tulips to Canada.
