13 Super Weird Facts About Canada

Canada is a big, beautiful and diverse country, which I’m enjoying for 10 days. These 13 facts about Canada are however SUPER WEIRD and interesting!

Mount Royal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

1: Canada has more lakes than the rest of the World’s lakes combined

2: Canada is the World’s Most Educated Country: over half its residents have college degrees

With Mario from Brazil, living in Montreal, Canada. He’s soon a Canadian citizen, educated like so many others

3: Canada consumes more macaroni and cheese than any other nation in the World

4: Canada is the second largest country in the World (land area), right after Russia

In Jacques-Cartier National Park. Canada is so damn big!

5: Canada has the largest coastline in the World

6: Residents of Churchill, Canada, leave their cars unlocked to offer an escape for pedestrians who might encounter Polar Bears

7: “Canada” is an Iroquoian language word meaning “Village”

8: Canada has the third largest oil reserves of any country in the World after Saudi Arabia and Venezuela

Chilling in Quebec, but most of the oil in Canada is found in Alberta, Saskatchewan and offshore Newfoundland and Labrador

9: The North American Beaver is the national animal of Canada

10: Canada and Denmark have been fighting over an uninhabited island (Hans Islands) by leaving each other bottles of alcohol and changing their flags since the 1930s

Coming from Denmark myself, I believe this is how friendly countries go to war with each other

11: Dildo is a town on the island of Newfoundland, Canada

We all have that crazy friend who would love to live here

12: Niagara Falls has the World’s highest flow rate, about 28 million liters, or about 700,000 gallons, of water travel down Niagara Falls every second

Niagara Falls on the American side with Canada in the background

13: No building in Montreal can be taller than the Mount Royal Cross.

No building in Montreal can be higher than this mountain spot. Such a weird rule! (@gustavrosted)

Some really weird facts indeed, but Canada is a super cool country!

Gustav

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