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Canada geographic situation in the world

Canada Flag

Canada is in American continent situated in the north of United State of America

It’s the second largest country in the world smaller only to Russia.

Population: it has a very small population only 28 million people.

Canada is divided into 10 provinces: The capital city is Ottawa

The major cities are: Montreal, Vancouver, Toronto, Edmonton, etc….

There are 43 ethnic group : the largest ethnic is English 21% and followed by French 15.8%...

Canada support for religious pluralism but the major religion is Christianity

Canada is one of the most best known tourist attractions country because it has a wide variety of interesting places to see: LIKE,

The Parliament PALACE….

Attraction

Nathen Philips business center in Toronto

A view of Niagara Falls in Ontario.

National museum in montreal

Toronto city center

Vancouver city by night

The history of Canada begins with the arrival of human being thousands of years ago,

Canada has evolved from a group of French and British colonies into a bilingual, multicultural federation.

Canada gradually attained full independence from Britain during the 20th century.

Bref history

Canada independent day is celebrated on 1st July.

Both English and French still play a significant role in Canada, with both being official languages.

The Canadian Government tries very hard to maintain a multi-cultural environment, encouraging people to maintain their heritage

Transportation Canada is a developed country whose

economy includes the import and export materials, because of this it has a transportation system which includes:

10 major international airports, more than 300 commercial ports and

harbors,

And functioning railway and roads

Types of transportation

Air lines company Road transportation

Others means of transportation

Railway transportation The Port of Vancouver, Canada's busiest port

Canada accommodations to provide excellences in services to the highest standards hotels, to ensure that tourist exceed their expectations,

There are a lot’s of hotel, motel, and restaurant available in the Canada.

Major Accommodation in Canada

The sutton place hotel (5 stars)one of the most famous

Pan pacific hotel vancouver(5 STARS HOTEL ON SHIP)

Richard cummins hotel

Holiday Inn Express Toronto(3 star hotel)

Hotel Campomar

Marriott hotel in Ottawa (one of the famous in the world)

Canada Disney land

Sheraton hotel in Ottawa

Niagara Inn Downtown(1 STAR HOTEL)

Canada boost a large domestic and foreign tourist industry ,

It is one of the largest touristic country after FRANCE,SPAIN….it increases geographical varieties in touristic attractions in the main cities like Ottawa,Toronto,Montreal….

In 2008, 1.2 million tourists visited Canada’s in his most famous cities.

Tourism role in the economy

Tourism activity in Canada represents about 2% of Canada’s overall GDP.

In 1980 unemployment rate in Canada reached 86% and has gradually decrease to 6.1% in 2008.

the lowest level of unemployment in over 30 years Compared to other G7 countries in 2007(Germany (8.4%), France (8.3%)……

Employment

Source: Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). OECD Standardised Unemployment Rates. OECD Statistics. Available from: http://www.oecd.org [cited May, 2009].

Over the last five years the Canadian tourism sector performed the overall Canadian economy.

Tourism activity in Canada represents 2% of Canada's overall GDP, making tourism a significant economic sector in Canada with a GDP equivalent to agriculture, fishing, forestry and hunting combined.

GNP (Gross National Product)

In 2008, tourism's contribution to Canadian GDP reached $30.7 billion, up 7.3% over 2007.

Total tourism revenue reached $74.9 billion in 2008, up 5.8%, while all governments' revenue generated by tourism reached $22.2 billion, up 5.7%.

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