Canada provinces and capitals with their abbreviations

Canada provinces and capitals with their abbreviations

Canada as one of the top biggest countries in the world, it has thirteen states, ten for provinces and three for territories. Today’s article will show with you all Canada provinces and their capitals with their respective abbreviation.

Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world’s second-largest country by total area.

The southern and western of Canada border with the United States, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi). The capital city of Canada is Ottawa and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.

Being the federation that composed ten provinces and three territories, Canada was then grouped into four main regions: Western Canada, Central Canada, Atlantic Canada, and Northern Canada (Eastern Canada refers to Central Canada and Atlantic Canada together).

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List of all provinces in Canada and their capital

The name of all Canada provinces and their capital with their abbreviation are shown in the table below:

ProvinceProvince abbreviationCapital
OntarioONToronto
QuebecQCQuebec City
British ColumbiaBCVictoria
AlbertaABEdmonton
ManitobaMBWinnipeg
SaskatchewanSKRegina
Nova ScotiaNSHalifax
New BrunswickNBFredericton
Newfoundland and LabradorNLSt. John’s
Prince Edward IslandPECharlottetown
Northwest TerritoriesNTYellowknife
Yukon (Territories)YTWhitehorse
Nunavut (Territories) NU Iqaluit

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Top best cities in Canada and their province name

Province nameCity name
Alberta (AB)Calgary
British Columbia (BC)Vancouver
Prince Edward Island (PE)Charlottetown
Manitoba (MB)Winnipeg
New Brunswick (NB)Saint John
Nova Scotia (NS)Halifax
Ontario (ON)Toronto
Quebec (QC)Montréal
Saskatchewan (SK)Saskatoon
Newfoundland and Labrador (NL)St. John’s

3 territories of Canada and their capital

Canada comprises three different territories and capital. Each territory speaks different languages. The three (3) territories in Canada and their capital are discussed in the table below.

Territory nameCapital
Nunavut (NU)Iqaluit
Yukon (YT)Whitehorse
Northwest Territories (NT)Yellowknife

Nunavut (NU)

Nunavut (NU) is one of the three territories and cities in Canada headquartered at Iqaluit. The commonest languages spoken in this territories are Inuinnaqtun, Inuktitut, English and French.

Yukon (YT)

This is another territories of Canada and one of the cities and provinces. Its headquartered is located at Whitehorse while the major languages which the people who stay in it speak are English and French language.

Northwest Territories (NT)

Last but not the least, Northwest Territories (NT) is the third territories in Canada headquartered in Yellowknife. The major languages spoken in Northwest Territories (NT) are: English, French, Chipewyan, Cri, Flanc-de-chien, Gwich’in, Inuinnaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun, North Slavey, South Slavey.

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