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A province is almost always an administrative division , within a country or state . The term derives from the ancient Roman " provincia ", which was the major territorial and administrative unit ___MASK90___ the ___MASK97___ ' s territorial possessions outside Italy . The term province has since been adopted by many countries , and in those with no actual provinces , it has come to mean " outside the capital city ". While some provinces were produced artificially by colonial powers , others were formed around local groups with their own ethnic identities . Many have their own powers independent ___MASK90___ federal authority , especially in Canada . In other countries , like ___MASK28___ , provinces are the creation ___MASK90___ central government , with very little autonomy . ___MASK43___ ( French : ) is a country in the ___MASK59___ half of North America . Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean , covering , making it the world ' s second - largest country by total area and the fourth - largest country by land area . ___MASK43___ ' s border with the United States is the world ' s longest land border . The majority of the country has a cold or severely cold winter climate , but southerly areas are warm in summer . ___MASK43___ is sparsely populated , the majority of its land territory being dominated by forest and tundra and the Rocky Mountains . About four - fifths of the country ' s population of 36 million people is urbanized and live near the southern border . Its capital is ___MASK80___ , its largest city is Toronto ; other major urban areas include Montreal , Vancouver , ___MASK89___ , Edmonton , ___MASK77___ City , Winnipeg and Hamilton . ___MASK31___ is a U . S . state located in the northwest extremity of North America . The Canadian administrative divisions of British Columbia and Yukon border the state to the east ; its most extreme western part is Attu Island ; it has a maritime border with Russia to the west across the Bering Strait . To the north are the Chukchi and Beaufort seas  the southern parts of the Arctic Ocean . The Pacific Ocean lies to the south and ___MASK83___ . ___MASK31___ is the largest state in the United States by area , the 3rd least populous and the least densely populated of the 50 United States . Approximately half of ___MASK31___ ' s residents ( the total estimated at 738 , 432 by the U . S . Census Bureau in 2015 ) live within the Anchorage metropolitan area . ___MASK31___ ' s economy is dominated by the fishing , natural gas , and oil industries , resources which it has in abundance . Military bases and tourism are also a significant part of the economy . ___MASK37___ is the ___MASK100___ populous city in Canada , the provincial capital of Ontario , and the centre of the Greater ___MASK37___ Area , the ___MASK100___ populous metropolitan area in Canada . Growing in population , the 2011 census recorded a population of 2 , 615 , 060 . As of 2015 , the population is now estimated at 2 , 826 , 498 , making ___MASK37___ the fourth - largest city in North America based on the population within its city limits . ___MASK37___ trails only ___MASK29___ City , ___MASK82___ City , and Los Angeles by this measure , while it is the fifth - largest ( behind also Chicago ) if ranked by the size of its metropolitan area . An established global city , ___MASK37___ is an international centre of business , finance , arts , and culture , and widely recognized as one of the ___MASK100___ multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world . ___MASK77___ City ( pronounced or ) officially Québec ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of ___MASK77___ . In 2015 the city had a population estimate of 545 , 485 , and the metropolitan area had a population of 806 , 400 , making it Canada ' s seventh - largest metropolitan area and ___MASK77___ ' s second - largest city after Montreal , which is about to the southwest . ___MASK99___ , officially the City of ___MASK99___ , is a coastal seaport city on the ___MASK11___ of British Columbia , Canada , and the most populous city in the province . The Rocky Mountains , commonly known as the Rockies , are a major ___MASK45___ range in western North America . The Rocky Mountains stretch more than from the northernmost part ___MASK90___ British ___MASK70___ , in western Canada , to New ___MASK29___ , in the southwestern United States . Within the North American Cordillera , the Rockies are somewhat distinct from the Pacific Coast Ranges and the Cascade Range and Sierra Nevada which all lie further to the west . A U . S . state is a constituent political entity ___MASK90___ the ___MASK52___ . There are 50 states , which are bound together in a union with each other . Each state holds administrative jurisdiction over a defined geographic territory , and shares its sovereignty with the United States federal government . Due to the shared sovereignty between each state and the federal government , Americans are citizens ___MASK90___ both the federal republic and ___MASK90___ the state in which they reside . State citizenship and residency are flexible , and no government approval is required to move between states , except for persons covered by certain types ___MASK90___ court orders ( e . g ., paroled convicts and children ___MASK90___ divorced spouses who are sharing custody ). ___MASK55___ is a political body and corporate entity designated by provincial legislation as one of the regional districts in British Columbia , Canada . The organization was formerly known as the Greater Vancouver Regional District ( GVRD ), and that name is still the official name and remains in common colloquial use , especially in the abbreviated form . ___MASK55___ is under the direction of 23 local authorities ; it delivers regional services , sets policy and acts as a political forum . The region ' s most populous city is Vancouver , and ___MASK55___ ' s administrative offices are located in the City of Burnaby . ___MASK5___ is a state in the northwestern region ___MASK90___ the United States . It borders the state ___MASK90___ Montana to the ___MASK32___ and northeast , Wyoming to the ___MASK32___ , Nevada and Utah to the south , and Washington and Oregon to the west . To the north , it shares a small portion ___MASK90___ the Canadian border with the province ___MASK90___ British ___MASK70___ . With a population ___MASK90___ around 1 . 7 million people and an area ___MASK90___ , ___MASK5___ is the 14th largest and 39th most populous ___MASK90___ the 50 states . The state ' s capital and largest city is Boise . New Westminster is a historically important city in the Lower ___MASK11___ region of British Columbia , Canada , and is a member municipality of the Greater Vancouver Regional District . It was founded as the capital of the new - born Colony of British Columbia in 1858 , and continued in that role until the ___MASK11___ and Island Colonies were merged in 1866 , and was the ___MASK11___ ' s largest city from that year until it was passed in population by Vancouver during the first decade of the 20th Century . It is located on the right bank of the Fraser River as it turns ___MASK83___ towards its estuary , on the ___MASK83___ side of the Burrard Peninsula and roughly at the centre of the Greater Vancouver region . Greater ___MASK99___ , also known as ___MASK55___ , is the metropolitan area with its major urban ___MASK61___ being the city of ___MASK99___ , British Columbia , Canada . The term " Greater ___MASK99___ " is roughly coterminous with the geographic area governed by the ___MASK55___ regional district , though it predates the 1966 creation of the regional district . It is often used to include areas beyond the boundaries of the regional district but does not generally include wilderness and agricultural areas within that regional district . A city is a large and permanent human settlement . Although there is no agreement on how a city is distinguished from a town in general English language meanings , many cities have a particular administrative , legal , or historical status based on local law . A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city . The size definition for what constitutes a " town " varies considerably in different parts ___MASK90___ the world . In geography , regions are areas that are broadly divided by physical characteristics ( physical geography ), human impact characteristics ( human geography ), and the interaction ___MASK90___ humanity and the environment ( environmental geography ). Geographic regions and sub - regions are mostly described by their imprecisely defined , and sometimes transitory boundaries , except in human geography , where jurisdiction areas such as national borders are defined in law . ___MASK9___ officially Montréal in both Canadian English and French , is the ___MASK100___ populous municipality in ___MASK77___ and the 2nd - ___MASK100___ populous in Canada . Originally called " Ville - Marie ", or " City of Mary ," it is named after Mount Royal , the triple - peaked hill in the heart of the city . The city is on the Island of ___MASK9___ , which took its name from the same source as the city , and a few much smaller peripheral islands , the largest of which is Île Bizard . It has a distinct four - season continental climate with warm to hot summers and cold snowy winters . ___MASK21___ is the capital and largest city of the province of ___MASK14___ in Canada . It is located near the longitudinal centre of North America , at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers . British ___MASK70___ ( BC ) is the westernmost province of Canada , with a population of more than four million people located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains . British ___MASK70___ is also a component of the Pacific ___MASK71___ and the Cascadia bioregion , along with the U . S . states of Idaho , Oregon , Washington and ___MASK31___ . ___MASK80___ is the capital city of Canada . It stands on the south bank of the ___MASK80___ River in the eastern portion of southern Ontario . ___MASK80___ borders ___MASK48___ , ___MASK77___ ; the two form the core of the ___MASK80___  ___MASK48___ census metropolitan area ( CMA ) and the National Capital Region ( NCR ). The 2011 census reported a population of 883 , 391 , making it the fourth - largest city in Canada ; and 1 , 236 , 324 within the CMA , making it the fourth - largest CMA in Canada . The City of ___MASK80___ reported that the city had an estimated population of 960 , 754 as of December 2015 . The Pacific ___MASK71___ ( in the United States , commonly abbreviated as PNW ), sometimes referred to as Cascadia , is a geographic region in western North America bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the west and loosely , by the Rocky Mountains on the east . Though no agreed boundary exists , a common conception includes the U . S . states of Oregon and Washington and the Canadian province of British Columbia . Broader conceptions reach north into ___MASK31___ and Yukon , south into far northern California and east to the Continental Divide , thus including Idaho , Western Montana , and western Wyoming . Narrower conceptions may be limited to the northwestern US or to the coastal areas west of the Cascade and Coast mountains . The variety of definitions can be attributed to partially overlapping commonalities of the region ' s history , geography , society , and other factors . In physical geography , tundra is a type ___MASK90___ biome where the tree growth is hindered by low temperatures and short growing seasons . The term " tundra " comes through Russian  (" tûndra ") from the Kildin Sami word " tndâr " " uplands ", " treeless mountain tract ". There are three types ___MASK90___ tundra : Arctic tundra , ___MASK24___ tundra , and Antarctic tundra . In tundra , the vegetation is composed ___MASK90___ dwarf shrubs , sedges and grasses , mosses , and lichens . Scattered trees grow in some tundra regions . The ecotone ( or ecological boundary region ) between the tundra and the forest is known as the tree line or timberline . The ___MASK79___ is the largest ___MASK90___ the Earth ' s oceanic divisions . It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean ( or , depending on definition , to Antarctica ) in the south and is bounded by Asia and ___MASK15___ in the west and the Americas in the ___MASK32___ . ___MASK35___ ( short for " Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco ") is a ___MASK36___ political pressure group which campaigns against tobacco control activity . ___MASK81___ is the capital city of the Canadian province of Alberta . ___MASK81___ is on the North ___MASK74___ River and is the centre of the ___MASK81___ ___MASK88___ , which is surrounded by Alberta ' s central region . The Lower ___MASK11___ is a name commonly applied to the region surrounding and including Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada . As of 2011 , 2 , 590 , 921 people ( 59 % of British Columbia ' s total population ), lived in the region ; sixteen of the province ' s thirty most populous municipalities are located there . ___MASK89___ is a city in the Canadian province of Alberta . It is situated at the confluence of the Bow River and the Elbow River in the south of the province , in an area of foothills and prairie , about east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies . In the 2011 census , the City of ___MASK89___ had a population of 1 , 096 , 833 and a metropolitan population of 1 , 214 , 839 , making it the largest city in Alberta , and the third - largest municipality and fifth - largest census metropolitan area ( CMA ) in Canada . A " metropolitan area ", sometimes referred to as a " metro area " or just " metro ", is a region consisting ___MASK90___ a densely populated urban core and its less - populated surrounding territories , sharing industry , infrastructure , and housing . A metro area usually comprises multiple jurisdictions and municipalities : neighborhoods , townships , boroughs , cities , towns , exurbs , suburbs , counties , districts , states , and even nations like the eurodistricts . As social , economic and political institutions have changed , metropolitan areas have become key economic and political regions . Metropolitan areas include one or more urban areas , as well as satellite cities , towns and intervening rural areas that are socio - economically tied to the urban core , typically measured by commuting patterns . In geography , statistics and archaeology , a settlement , locality or populated place is a community in which people live . A settlement can range in size from a small number ___MASK90___ dwellings grouped together to the largest ___MASK90___ cities with surrounding urbanized areas . Settlements may include hamlets , villages , towns and cities . A settlement may have known historical properties such as the ___MASK66___ or era in which it was first settled , or first settled by a particular people .