Canada
This page was generated on 20 September 2026 at 13:30 UTC. The bundled facts on it were retrieved between 13 July 2026 and 8 August 2026. Aletheia's source record for emergency numbers records no retrieval date, so it is not covered by that range.
This page is being built. Everything below is a block that is in place and empty. Each one says which kind of empty it is, because those are different facts: nobody has looked yet is not the same claim as we looked and there was nothing, and this page will never let one stand in for the other.
Country outlines on Aletheia come from Natural Earth's 1:10-million public-domain boundary set, made by volunteer cartographers and supported by NACIS. Where a border is disputed, the line drawn is one cartographic convention among the competing claims — not a settled fact, and not Aletheia taking a side. Disputes we can source are listed rather than hidden inside the outline.
Canada is filled. The 3 other countries reaching this view are drawn in a dimmer tone — dimmed, not hidden. Unpainted ground is where no boundary in this dataset falls: open water, or land none of them claims.
Nothing is hatched because no disputed area in this source overlaps Canada. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.
355 parts of Canada in this source are smaller than a pixel at this scale and are not drawn. Nothing larger than that is missing, and they have not been enlarged to make them visible.
This frame is wide because the source attributes territory to Canada across about 104° of longitude. Nothing has been cropped to make the country look compact.
Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m. Disputed areas: Natural Earth (public domain). Equirectangular projection, standard parallel 62.4°N — distances and areas away from that parallel are stretched. View: 149.0°W–44.6°W, 37.9°N–86.8°N.
Disputed areas
none listedNo disputed area in this source overlaps Canada. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.
News sources
2 sources from Canadain Aletheia’s registry. Coverage here is thin.
- National Post
- Global News (Canada)
sources not yet assessed
Official alerts
An official alerting source is connected for Canada: ECCC / MSC (Canada).
This says a source is connected — not whether any warning is in force right now. Open Alerts for that.
National legislature
Wikidata P856 · link checked and reachable
Local time
23 time zones.
How many distinct clocks that is depends on the date. The current time needs JavaScript, so it is not shown here rather than shown wrong.
Conditions at the capital
Right now in Ottawa
12°C / 53°FMainly clearwind 10 km/h / 6 mph
Checked less than a minute ago
Conditions at the capital, not across the country.
Weather from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)
Ottawa, 2026-09-20Sunrise 6:47 AM · sunset 7:04 PM12h 17m of daylightWaxing gibbous, 65% lit
At a glance
- ISO code
- CANuncited
- Driving side
- rightcited
- Mains voltage
- 120 Vcited
- Capital
- Ottawacited
- Official languages
- English, Frenchcited
- Plug types
- Type A (NEMA 1-15), Type B (NEMA 5-15)cited · letters are the IEC classification
- Official website
- canada.ca ↗From the source's "official website" statement, kept here because the site is a government portal. We have not tested whether it loads.uncited
Population and economy
Population
Population of Canada: the UN's 2025 estimate is 41,651,653 people. The page shows that figure carried forward at about 44 more an hour. It is a projection, not a count, and the figure shown changes as time passes.
Not a count. This is the UN's 2025 estimate carried forward at the rate implied by the two most recent published years — arithmetic, not a measurement. Nobody counts a country continuously, and the true figure right now is unknown.
Where this number comes from
- Base figure
- 41,651,653 people
- For the year
- 2025 — a mid-year estimate, so it describes 1 July 2025
- Compared with
- 41,262,329 people in 2024
- Rate applied
- about 44 more an hour (389,583 a year)
- How that rate was found
- The difference between the 2024 and 2025 estimates, divided by the time between them. It is our arithmetic on two published figures — the source does not publish this rate.
- Carried forward
- 0 days beyond the base figure's date
- Source
- UN World Population Prospects and national statistical offices, compiled by the World Bank · source updated 2026-07-13
- The source's own definition
- The values shown are midyear estimates.
THIS NUMBER IS NOT A MEASUREMENT, AND ITS MOVEMENT IS NOT NEWS. No country counts its population continuously. A census is periodic, and every figure between censuses — including the estimate this starts from — is a projection. What you are watching is that projection's trend applied to the clock on your phone. It moves because time passes, not because anyone was born or died. Treat the digits beyond the first few as arithmetic rather than knowledge: the trend is real, the precision is not.
- Population
- 41,651,6532025
- GDP
- 2,319,899,772,4262025
- GDP per capita
- 55,6982025
- Life expectancy at birth
- 82.1 years2024
- Exports
- 31.3%2025
- Imports
- 32.2%2025
Compiled by the World Bank from: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division · source updated 2026-07-13 · each figure is dated because the most recent value was chosen by us, not by the source
In this country's own words
A motto IS recorded for this country, but not in any of its official languages. Aletheia does not quote a country in a language it does not use officially — the risk is quoting a mis-tagged entry as a nation's own words. That is our rule declining it, not the source failing to record one.
Also recorded in Latin.
World Heritage Sites
22 World Heritage Sitesshow all
- Nahanni National Park Reserve · inscribed 1978
- L'Anse aux Meadows · inscribed 1978
- Dinosaur Provincial Park · inscribed 1979
- Kluane / Wrangell – St. Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek · inscribed 1979 · shared with United States
- Burgess Shale · inscribed 1980 · removed from the List
- Ninstints · inscribed 1981
- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump · inscribed 1981
- Wood Buffalo National Park · inscribed 1983
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site · inscribed 1984
- Old Quebec · inscribed 1985
- Gros Morne National Park · inscribed 1987
- Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park · inscribed 1995 · shared with United States
- Old Town Lunenburg · inscribed 1995
- Miguasha National Park · inscribed 1999
- Rideau Canal World Heritage Site · inscribed 2007
- Joggins Fossil Cliffs · inscribed 2008
- Grand-Pré · inscribed 2012
- Red Bay National Historic Site · inscribed 2013
- Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve · inscribed 2016
- Pimachiowin Aki · inscribed 2018
- Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park · inscribed 2019
- Tr'ondëk-Klondike · inscribed 2023
- Anticosti · inscribed 2023
Register from Wikidata (CC0) · in inscription order · links go to UNESCO · 1 removed from the list is shown and not counted
Emergency numbers
- 911
Shown in numerical order, which is not an order of priority.
Listed by the source, mostly from ITU-T E.129. We have not dialled these numbers, and where a service is named it is the source's description rather than ours.
Explore this country
Regions
- Alberta
- British Columbia
- Manitoba
- New Brunswick
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Northwest Territories
- Nova Scotia
- Nunavut
- Ontario
- Prince Edward Island
- Quebec
- Saskatchewan
- Yukon
First-level regions as GeoNames lists them, shown alphabetically · each page computes daylight at the region’s own coordinates
Currency
CAD
News coverage here is counted from Aletheia’s bundled source registry plus the sources the Host had admitted as of 2026-09-14. A source admitted since that date has not reached this page yet, so this is a floor rather than a total.