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Belize ___MASK93___ is an ___MASK93___ on the Central ___MASK20___ of British Columbia , Canada , located to the north of and adjoining Seymour ___MASK93___ . Toronto is the most populous ___MASK45___ in Canada , the provincial ___MASK14___ of Ontario , and the centre of the Greater Toronto Area , the most 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 Toronto the fourth - largest ___MASK45___ in North America based on the population within its ___MASK45___ limits . Toronto trails only Mexico City , New York 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 ___MASK45___ , Toronto is an international centre of business , finance , arts , and culture , and widely recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world . Seymour ___MASK93___ is one of the lesser traveled of the ___MASK67___ inlets of the British Columbia Coast . Unlike larger inlets such as Knight or Bute , it is not flanked by mountains but by relatively low , but still rugged , coastal hill - country and forms a maze of complex , narrow waterways and tidal pools and lagoons . It is located within a corresponding maze of peninsulas on the mainland on the northwest side of the Queen Charlotte Strait region . An ___MASK77___ ( the ___MASK92___ of classical antiquity ) is a body of saline water that composes much of a planet ' s hydrosphere . On Earth , an ___MASK77___ is one of the major conventional divisions of the World Ocean , which covers almost 71 % of its surface . These are , in descending order by area , the Pacific , Atlantic , Indian , Southern ( Antarctic ), and Arctic Oceans . The word " ___MASK92___ " is often used interchangeably with " ___MASK77___ " in American English but , strictly speaking , a ___MASK92___ is a body of saline water ( generally a division of the world ___MASK77___ ) partly or fully enclosed by land . In physical ___MASK40___ , tundra is a type of biome where the ___MASK74___ 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 of tundra : Arctic tundra , alpine tundra , and Antarctic tundra . In tundra , the vegetation is composed of 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 ___MASK74___ line or timberline . ___MASK76___ Charlotte ___MASK41___ is a ___MASK41___ between Vancouver ___MASK12___ and the Mainland of British Columbia , Canada . It connects ___MASK76___ Charlotte ___MASK9___ with Johnstone ___MASK41___ and Discovery Passage and via them to the ___MASK41___ of Georgia and Puget ___MASK9___ . It forms part of the Inside Passage from Washington to Alaska . The term ___MASK76___ Charlotte ___MASK41___ is also used to refer to the general region and its many communities , notably of the Kwakwaka ' wakw peoples . Despite its name , ___MASK76___ Charlotte ___MASK41___ does not lie between the ___MASK76___ Charlotte Islands ( Haida Gwaii } and the mainland ; that body of water is named Hecate ___MASK41___ . According to the BCGNIS , the northern boundary of ___MASK76___ Charlotte ___MASK41___ is defined as a line running Cape Sutil , at the north end of Vancouver ___MASK12___ , to Cape Caution on the mainland . The southern end of ___MASK76___ Charlotte ___MASK41___ is described as " several narrow channels north and east of Malcolm ___MASK12___ ". Montreal officially Montréal in both Canadian English and French , is the most populous ___MASK100___ in Quebec and the 2nd - most populous in Canada . Originally called " ___MASK72___ - 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 ___MASK12___ of Montreal , 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 - ___MASK35___ continental climate with warm to hot summers and cold snowy winters . Edmonton is the ___MASK14___ city of the Canadian province of Alberta . Edmonton is on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton ___MASK14___ Region , which is surrounded by Alberta ' s central region . A ___MASK66___ is a shallow body of ___MASK1___ separated from a larger body of ___MASK1___ by barrier islands or reefs . Lagoons are commonly divided into coastal lagoons and atoll lagoons . They have also been identified as occurring on mixed - sand and gravel coastlines . There is an overlap between bodies of ___MASK1___ classified as coastal lagoons and bodies of ___MASK1___ classified as estuaries . Lagoons are common coastal features around many parts of the world . Calgary is a ___MASK45___ in the Canadian ___MASK75___ of Alberta . It is situated at the confluence of the Bow River and the Elbow River in the south of the ___MASK75___ , in an area of foothills and prairie , about east of the ___MASK82___ ranges of the Canadian Rockies . In the 2011 census , the City of Calgary had a population of 1 , 096 , 833 and a metropolitan population of 1 , 214 , 839 , making it the largest ___MASK45___ in Alberta , and the third - largest municipality and fifth - largest census metropolitan area ( CMA ) in Canada . Winnipeg is the ___MASK14___ and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada . It is located near the longitudinal centre of North America , at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers . A ___MASK70___ is a body of water connected to an ocean or lake , formed by an indentation of the shoreline . A large ___MASK70___ may be called a " gulf ", a " sea ", a " sound ", or a " bight ". A " cove " is a smaller circular or oval coastal inlet with a narrow entrance ; some coves may be referred to as bays . A " ___MASK18___ " is a particularly steep ___MASK70___ shaped by glacial activity . A ___MASK62___ is a wetland that is dominated by herbaceous rather than woody plant species . Marshes can often be found at the edges of lakes and streams , where they form a transition between the aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems . They are often dominated by grasses , rushes or reeds . If woody plants are present they tend to be low - growing shrubs . This form of vegetation is what differentiates marshes from other types of wetland such as swamps , which are dominated by trees , and mires , which are wetlands that have accumulated deposits of acidic peat . The Rocky Mountains , commonly known as the Rockies , are a major ___MASK96___ in western North America . The Rocky Mountains stretch more than from the northernmost ___MASK29___ of British Columbia , in western Canada , to New Mexico , in the southwestern United States . Within the North American Cordillera , the Rockies are somewhat distinct from the ___MASK44___ and the Cascade Range and ___MASK59___ Nevada which all lie further to the west . Quebec ___MASK45___ ( pronounced or ) officially Québec ) is the ___MASK14___ city of the Canadian province of Quebec . 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 Quebec ' s second - largest city after Montreal , which is about to the southwest . An ___MASK93___ is an indentation of a shoreline , usually long and narrow , such as a small ___MASK70___ or arm , that often leads to an enclosed body of salt water , such as a sound , ___MASK70___ , lagoon , or marsh . In sea coasts , an ___MASK93___ usually refers to the actual connection between a ___MASK70___ and the ocean and is often called an " entrance " or a recession in the shore of a sea , lake , or river . A certain kind of ___MASK93___ created by glaciation is a ___MASK18___ , typically but not always in mountainous coastlines and also in montane lakes . The British Columbia ___MASK20___ or BC ___MASK20___ is Canada ' s western continental coastline on the Pacific ___MASK77___ . The usage is synonymous with the term West ___MASK20___ of Canada . Geologically , a ___MASK18___ or fiord is a long , narrow inlet with steep sides or cliffs , created by glacial erosion . There are many fjords on the coasts of Alaska , British Columbia , Chile , Greenland , Iceland , the Kerguelen Islands , New Zealand , Norway , Novaya Zemlya , Labrador , Nunavut , Newfoundland , Scotland , and Washington state . Norway ' s coastline is estimated at with fjords , but only when fjords are excluded . Ottawa is the ___MASK14___ city of Canada . It stands on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of southern Ontario . Ottawa borders Gatineau , Quebec ; the two form the core of the Ottawa  Gatineau census metropolitan area ( CMA ) and the National ___MASK14___ Region ( NCR ). The 2011 census reported a population of 883 , 391 , making it the fourth - largest city in Canada ; and ___MASK38___ , 236 , 324 within the CMA , making it the fourth - largest CMA in Canada . The City of Ottawa reported that the city had an estimated population of 960 , 754 as of ___MASK58___ 2015 . Canada ( French : ) is a ___MASK91___ in the northern half of North America . Its ___MASK83___ 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 ___MASK91___ by total area and the fourth - largest ___MASK91___ by land area . Canada ' s ___MASK27___ with the United States is the world ' s longest land ___MASK27___ . The majority of the ___MASK91___ has a cold or severely cold winter climate , but southerly areas are warm in summer . Canada is sparsely populated , the majority of its land territory being dominated by forest and tundra and the Rocky Mountains . About four - fifths of the ___MASK91___ ' s ___MASK46___ of 36 million ___MASK42___ is urbanized and live near the southern ___MASK27___ . Its ___MASK14___ is Ottawa , its largest city is Toronto ; other major urban areas include Montreal , Vancouver , Calgary , Edmonton , Quebec City , Winnipeg and Hamilton . ___MASK95___ ( short for " Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking ___MASK17___ ") is a United Kingdom political pressure ___MASK4___ which campaigns against tobacco control activity . Vancouver , officially ___MASK79___ of Vancouver , is a coastal ___MASK15___ city on the mainland of British Columbia , Canada , and the most populous city in the province .