Canada

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Codes and identifiers

ISO alpha-2
CA
ISO alpha-3
CAN
ISO numeric
124
FIPS 10-4
CA
GeoNames ID
6251999

Key facts

Capital
Ottawa
Area
9,984,670 km²
Population
37,058,856
Currency
Dollar (CAD)
Calling code
+1
Top-level domain
.ca
Official languages
en-CA,fr-CA,iu

Continent

Name
North America
Code
NA
In this dataset
42 countries

North America in the country atlas

Location

Latitude
60.10867
Longitude
-113.64258
Min latitude
41.66908559200006
Min longitude
-141.00556393099993
Max latitude
83.11652252800008
Max longitude
-52.61660722599993

Boundary

Canada

The API call behind this page

Request

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  "https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/CA?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"

Response

{
  "data": {
    "area_sq_km": 9984670,
    "capital": "Ottawa",
    "continent_code": "NA",
    "currency_code": "CAD",
    "iso3_code": "CAN",
    "iso_code": "CA",
    "name": "Canada",
    "population": 37058856
  }
}

Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.

Other endpoints for this country

  • /v1/countries/CA/regions
  • /v1/cities?country=CA
  • /v1/postal-codes?country=CA
  • /v1/timezones?country=CA
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Name in other languages

Arabic
كندا
Chinese
加拿大
English
Canada
French
Canada
German
Kanada
Hindi
कनाडा
Italian
Canada
Japanese
カナダ
Korean
캐나다
Portuguese
Canadá
Russian
Канада
Spanish
Canadá
Total language variants
129

The API returns any of them with ?lang=.

Time zones

IANA ID UTC offset DST offset
America/Atikokan UTC-05:00 UTC-05:00
America/Blanc-Sablon UTC-04:00 UTC-04:00
America/Cambridge_Bay UTC-07:00 UTC-06:00
America/Creston UTC-07:00 UTC-07:00
America/Dawson UTC-07:00 UTC-07:00
America/Dawson_Creek UTC-07:00 UTC-07:00
America/Edmonton UTC-07:00 UTC-06:00
America/Fort_Nelson UTC-07:00 UTC-07:00
America/Glace_Bay UTC-04:00 UTC-03:00
America/Goose_Bay UTC-04:00 UTC-03:00
America/Halifax UTC-04:00 UTC-03:00
America/Inuvik UTC-07:00 UTC-06:00
America/Iqaluit UTC-05:00 UTC-04:00
America/Moncton UTC-04:00 UTC-03:00
America/Rankin_Inlet UTC-06:00 UTC-05:00
America/Regina UTC-06:00 UTC-06:00
America/Resolute UTC-06:00 UTC-05:00
America/St_Johns UTC-03:30 UTC-02:30
America/Swift_Current UTC-06:00 UTC-06:00
America/Toronto UTC-05:00 UTC-04:00
America/Vancouver UTC-08:00 UTC-07:00
America/Whitehorse UTC-07:00 UTC-07:00
America/Winnipeg UTC-06:00 UTC-05:00

Postal code format

Format
@#@ #@#
Pattern
^([ABCEGHJKLMNPRSTVXY]\d[ABCEGHJKLMNPRSTVWXYZ]) ?(\d[ABCEGHJKLMNPRSTVWXYZ]\d)$

First-level administrative regions

  • Ontario
  • Québec
  • British Columbia
  • Alberta
  • Manitoba
  • Saskatchewan
  • Nova Scotia
  • New Brunswick/Nouveau-Brunswick
  • Newfoundland and Labrador
  • Prince Edward Island
  • Northwest Territories
  • Yukon
  • Nunavut

13 of 13 shown, largest first

Largest cities

City Population
Toronto 2,794,356
Montréal 1,762,949
Calgary 1,306,784
Ottawa 1,017,449
Edmonton 1,010,899
Winnipeg 749,607
Mississauga 717,961
Vancouver 662,248
Brampton 656,480
Hamilton 569,353

Coverage in this dataset

Cities
21,728
First-level regions
13
Postal codes
1,657
Name languages
129
Boundary polygon
Yes

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