Wednesday, 17 April 2013

POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY OF CANADA



ADMINISTRATIVE GEOGRAPHY OF CANADA
DISTRICTS AND TERRITORIES

DISTRICTS
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Victoria
ALBERTA
Edmonton
SASKATCHEWAN
Regina
MANITOBA
Winnipeg
ONTARIO
Toronto
QUEBEC
Quebec
NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR
Sain John's
NEW BRUNSWICK
Fredericton
NEW SCOTIA
Halifax
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
Charlottetown
TERRITORIES
YUKON
Whitehorse
NORTHWEST TERRITORIES
Yellowknife
NUNAVIT
Iqaluit


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PHYSICAL GEOGRPAHY OF CANADA


PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY OF CANADA

1. LIMITS AND BOUNDARIES

North: Arctic Ocean
West: Alaska, Pacific Ocean
South: United States Border
East: Atlantic Ocean


2. ELEMENTS OF THE MAINLAND RELIEF

Plains: Interior Plains
Plateaus: Laurentian Plateau
Mountain Ranges: Mackenzie Mountains, Cassiar Mountains, Coastal Mountains, Rocky Mountains, Baffin Mountains,
Peaks: Mount Logan


3. ELEMENTS OF THE COAST

Oceans: Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Arctic Ocean
Seas: Beaufort Sea, Labrador Sea
Peninsulas: Boothia Peninsula, Melville Peninsula, Peninsula D' Ungava, Peninsula of Labrador, New Scotia
Islands and Archipelagos:
  1. Arctic Ocean: Ellesmere, Queen Elizabeth Island, Meville, Devon, Banks, Victoria, Prince Wales, King William, Somerset, Baffin
  2. Hudson Bay: Southampton
  3. Atlantic Ocean: Newfoundland, Anticosti, Prince Edward
  4. Pacific Ocean: Queen Charlotte, Vancouver
Capes: Cape Bathurst, Cape Wolstenholme, Cape Chidley, Battle Harbour Point, Cape Race, Cape Scott
Gulfs/bays/sounds: Mackenzie Bay, Amundsen Gulf, Queen Maud Gulf, Gulf of Boothia, Gulf of Foxe, Hudson Bay, James' Bay, Ungava Bay, Gulf of Sain Lawrence, Puget Sound, Queen Charlotte Sound
Straits: Dolphin and Union Strait, Davis Strait, Hudson Strait


4. ELEMENTS OF THE INLAND HYDROGRAPHY

Rivers:
  1. To the Bering Sea: Yukon
  2. To the Beaufort Sea: Mackenzie
  3. To the Lake Mclend: Fraser
  4. To the Lake Athabasca: Athabasca
  5. To the Lake Winnipeg: Saskatchewan
  6. To the Hudson Bay: Dubawnt, Albany, Le Grande Riviere
  7. To the Atlantic Ocean: River Saint Lawerence

Lakes: Grat Bear Lake, Great Slave Lake, Winnipeg, Winnipegosis, Superior, Huron, Eire, Ontario, Smallwood