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Atlantic Canada
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four provinces of Canada on the Atlantic Ocean
Key facts
- Country
- Canada
- Composition
- New Brunswick Newfoundland and Labrador Nova Scotia Prince Edward Island
- Most populous municipality
- Halifax
- Total
- 539,064 km (208,134 sq mi)
- Density
- 4/km (10/sq mi)
- The maritimes and labrador
- UTC-4:00 ( AST )
- Newfoundland
- UTC-3:30 ( NST )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- region
- Has part
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Country
- Canada
- Located in
- Canada
- Area
- 500531
- Image
- Greenwich dunes.jpg
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- Commons category
- Atlantic Canada
- topic's main category
- Category:Atlantic Canada
- quantity
- 4
- inception
- 1949-00-00
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
Atlantic Canada, also called the Atlantic provinces (French: provinces de l'Atlantique), is the region of Eastern Canada comprising four provinces: New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. As of 2021, the landmass of the four Atlantic provinces was approximately 488,000 km (188,000 sq mi), and had a population of over 2.4 million people. The term Atlantic Canada was popularized following the admission of Newfoundland as a Canadian province in 1949. The province of Newfoundland and Labrador is not included in the Maritimes, another significant regional term, but is included in Atlantic Canada.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Atlantic Canada” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.