Quote: "By total area (including its waters), Canada is the second-largest country in the world, after Russia."
This subfield studies Canada's natural and cultural landscapes, land-use patterns, and regional patterns.
Physical Geography: This branch of geography deals with the natural features on the Earth's surface and includes topics such as climate, landforms, vegetation, and natural resources.
Human Geography: This branch of geography looks at the relationship between humans and their environment, including topics such as demographics, culture, and politics.
Geopolitics: This involves the study of the political and economic relationships between different countries and regions, as well as the impact of geography on these relationships.
Canadian Identity: This looks at the unique cultural, historical, and social characteristics that define Canada as a nation.
Indigenous Peoples: This topic explores the history, culture, and current issues facing Canada's Indigenous peoples, including the impact of colonialism and the ongoing process of reconciliation.
Regional Geography: This looks at the different regions of Canada and the distinct physical and cultural characteristics that define them.
Geographical Information Systems (GIS): This involves the use of computer technology to gather, analyze, and visualize geographic data.
Economic Geography: This focuses on the distribution of economic activity across different regions and the factors that influence it, such as access to natural resources and transportation networks.
Environmental Geography: This looks at the interactions between humans and the natural environment, including topics such as climate change, pollution, and conservation.
Urban Geography: This focuses on the patterns and processes of urbanization in Canada, including topics such as urban planning, land use, and the social dynamics of cities.
Physical geography: This type of geography deals with the natural features of Canada, such as mountains, rivers, lakes, and glaciers.
Human geography: This type of geography is concerned with the study of the ways in which human beings interact with their environment in Canada.
Economic geography: It focuses on the economic activities taking place to study their pattern and influence on the environment in Canada.
Cultural geography: Studies the cultural traits and patterns of human activities in relation to the environment in Canada.
Urban geography: This type of geography focuses on cities and their economic, political, social and cultural variations.
Political geography: It deals with the political and territorial boundaries of Canada and how governance is affected by the physical and cultural geography.
Historical Geography: It focuses on the understanding of the evolution of human activities and environmental settings and how changes occurred in history in Canada.
Geomorphology: It is a type of physical geography that studies the physical features and processes of the earth's surface in Canada.
Biogeography: This type of geography studies the distribution of different plant and animal species and the relationship between organisms and their environment in Canada.
Geomatics: It is an interdisciplinary field that utilizes technology to manage and analyze geographic data in Canada.
Quote: "Of Canada's thirteen provinces and territories..."
Quote: "Canada is home to the world's northernmost settlement, Canadian Forces Station Alert..."
Quote: "Canada has the longest coastline in the world, with a total length of 243,042 kilometres (151,019 mi)."
Quote: "Canada can be divided into seven physiographic regions: the Canadian Shield, the interior plains, the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowlands, the Appalachian region, the Western Cordillera, Hudson Bay Lowlands and the Arctic Archipelago."
Quote: "Canada is also divided into fifteen terrestrial and five marine ecozones, encompassing over 80,000 classified species of life."
Quote: "42 percent of the land acreage of Canada is covered by forests."
Quote: "Canada has over 2,000,000 lakes..."
Quote: "Since the end of the last glacial period, Canada has consisted of eight distinct forest regions, including extensive boreal forest on the Canadian Shield."
Quote: "There are also freshwater glaciers in the Canadian Rockies, the Coast Mountains, and the Arctic Cordillera."
Quote: "A recent global remote sensing analysis also suggested that there were 6,477 km2 of tidal flats in Canada..."
Quote: "making it the 5th ranked country in terms of how much tidal flat occurs there."
Quote: "Canada is geologically active, having many earthquakes and potentially active volcanoes, notably the Mount Meager massif, Mount Garibaldi, Mount Cayley, and the Mount Edziza volcanic complex."
Quote: "Average winter and summer high temperatures across Canada range from Arctic weather in the north, to hot summers in the southern regions, with four distinct seasons."
Quote: "To the southeast, Canada shares a maritime boundary with France's overseas collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon..."
Quote: "Three of Canada's Arctic islands, Baffin Island, Victoria Island, and Ellesmere Island, are among the ten largest in the world."
Quote: "Only two [provinces] are landlocked (Alberta and Saskatchewan)..."
Quote: "Greenland is to the northeast with a shared border on Hans Island."
Quote: "To the north lies the Arctic Ocean."
Quote: "its border with the United States is the world's longest land border, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi)."