Lychee

No, this is not an immigration question, but a comparison of geography. So often we forget how truly massive Canada is. Each province is the size of a country!



... or multiple countries:



Puts things in perspective!

Edit: I found those two maps on this site: http://mapfrappe.blogspot.ca/2011/02...pe-canada.html. I thought I'd share it because I've seen many questions that suggest a lack of understanding of the vastness of Canada.

Oink

It's not the size that matters its the smell.

ExKiwilass

wow.

Lychee

Another one:

MillieF

Lychee, that's brilliant, many many thanks.

Dave n Ailsa

This occurred to me when I drove from Toronto to Montreal, then to Ottawa and back to Toronto. I thought I had driven for ever!, but on re-tracing my journey on a map I realised I had hardly been anywhere! lol.

relatively speaking

Shard

Cool outlining, how did you do that?

I think the Newfoundland one makes the point best.

Atlantic Xpat

+1 on that. The island portion of Newfoundland and Labrador, i.e. the "Newfoundland" bit is roughly the same size as England & Wales without Scotland but has less than 1% of the population. That always brings something home to me.

Another way to appreciate how frigging huge the country is, is to fly across it. I'm in Hong Kong this week and flew from St. John's via Toronto & Vancouver. Excluding the stopovers the flying across Canada bit was 8.5hrs!

Oink

There's a reason for that.

Jingsamichty

Jammy sod.

Lychee

Copy and paste from a blog.

The blog says it was done using this: http://mapfrappe.com/

Lychee

Just did one myself - it's easy. Vancouver Island compared to the UK: http://mapfrappe.com/?show=7465

... and another comparing British Columbia with the UK. Wow! http://mapfrappe.com/?show=7467

Atlantic Xpat

Oh yes. One weekend travelling for 5 days work before leaving Friday night HK time to get back to St. John's at 11.30am the following Saturday. The glamour of the international businesman.

cheeky_monkey

Alberta is roughly the size of the UK and Germany put together but has a population of 3.5m as against 145m...no wonder i cant get a decent curry or sausages

feelbritish

Fascinating stuff! Remember though there are one hell of a lot of mountains!

Was talking with friends the other day and saying we cannot understand why more land is not set aside for small scale farming like in the UK and Europe and supplying more local food without importing so much. Green houses would also work!