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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
- Area
- 500531
- Image
- Greenwich dunes.jpg
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- Commons category
- Atlantic Canada
- quantity
- 4
- inception
- 1949-00-00
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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.
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