Do you know CANADA?

• The Trans-Canada Highway, completed in 1962, is 7604 km long - the longest national highway in the world.

• Canada has the world's longest coastline: 202,080 kilometres

• Canada has the world's highest tide - in the Bay of Fundy at Burntcoat Head, Nova Scotia

• Canada's Great Lakes - Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario - are the largest group of freshwater lakes in the world with a total surface area of 245 000 square km

• The largest non-polar ice field in the world is in the St. Elias Mountains, Yukon Territory with an area of 40,570 square km

• The world's largest island in a freshwater lake is Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron, Ontario at 2765 square km

• The northernmost settlement in the world is Canadian Forces Station (CFS) Alert on the northern tip of Ellesmere Island—latitude 82.5°N—817 km from the North Pole

• Canada is the world's largest producer of zinc and uranium

• The Athabasca Tar Sands in Alberta give Canada the second largest reserves of oil in the world

• Canada has the largest covered bridge in the world (www.town.hartland.nb.ca)

• Canada boasts the tallest lighhouse in the world - Cap des Rosiers (Gaspe Quebec, at the mouith of St. Lawrence )