Canada
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- Names
Canada
Kanada
CAN
CA
ISO124
CA00
Dominion of Canada
Canada, Dominion of
British North America
Canadian
- Place Type
- nation
- Description
- Inhabited by ancestors of Amerindians and Inuit in Upper Palaeolithic or earlier; evolved diverse cultures over vast area; Norse settlements by 1000 CE; English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese claimed territory from the 16th century; under British control from 1759; official languages are English and French.
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- Source
- Britannica Book of the Year (1992); Britannica Book of the Year (1993); Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990); Canadian Centre for Architecture database (1987-); Canby, Historic Places (1984); Cassell's German Dictionary (1982); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); Getty Vocabulary Program rules; ISO Country Codes (1996); ISO Handbook (1988); NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998); NIMA, GNS ADM1 Codes (1999); National Archives of Canada database (1987-)...
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