A Brief Lesson About Canada...

This graphic was found on Reddit and came to my attention through Col. Chris Hadfield - one of Canada's preeminent astronauts and generally cool guy.

Given it's Canada's 150th birthday this year, I thought I'd share it with my global beBee Community.

This map shows our country of Canada broken down by counties or regions.

Based on census data, 50% of Canadians live in the red areas.

Since Canada is the second largest country ( 9.985 million km² ) in the world by land mass, that leaves a lot of wide open spaces.  We beat out the US by a few ( 9.834 million km²).

If you want to get away from it all, it's not too difficult.

Full Reddit post available here:  https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/2aw0h6/50_of_the_canadian_population_lives_in_these/

Here are some of the details from the Reddit post by DonOntario (for those too lazy to click through).

Sources:

• A blank map of "census divisions of Canada" from Wikimedia Commons
• 2011 Canadian Census list of the census divisions of Canada ranked by population.

Notes:

• Several provinces in Canada do not have counties, but the census has defined what level of local government is considered the equivalent of a county in those places. They call them 'census divisions', whatever they are called in the different provinces.
• This is a map of the top-sixteen most populous counties (and equivalent districts), just enough to contain 50% of the population. It is not the same thing as the most populous cities or metropolitan areas.
• 10 out of 16 are in southern Ontario.
  
• 5 out of the 16 are, at least partially, in the GTA (Greater Toronto metropolitan area).

• Toronto, ON (City)
• Greater Vancouver, BC (Regional District - includes Vancouver, Surrey, Burnaby, Richmond, Coquitlam, Langley and many other smaller municipalities.)
• Montreal, QC (City of Montreal plus smaller municipalities on the island)
• Division No. 6, AB (Calgary and surrounding towns)
• Peel, ON (Regional Municipality, includes Mississauga and Brampton)
• Division No. 11, AB (Edmonton and surrounding towns)
• York, ON (Regional Municipality, includes Vaughan, Markham, Richmond Hill, Aurora, Newmarket)
• Ottawa, ON (City)
• Division No. 11, MB (Winnipeg Capital Region)
• Durham, ON (Regional Municipality, includes Pickering, Ajax, Whitby, Oshawa)
• Quebec, QC (City)
• Hamilton, ON (City)
• Waterloo, ON (Regional Municipality, includes Kitchener, Cambridge, Waterloo)
• Halton, ON (Regional Municipality, includes Burlington, Oakville)
• Simcoe, ON (County, includes Barrie)
• Middlesex, ON (County, includes London)

Total population of those 16 districts in the 2011 census: 16,782,521
Total population of Canada in the 2011 census: 33,476,688

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