Americas
Canada
Everything you need to know about Canada for geography games and satellite imagery — capital, population, time zone, and how to recognise it from above.
Quick facts
Where is Canada?
Satellite view centred on Ottawa (56.0°, -106.0°).
How to spot Canada from satellite imagery
Canada is enormous. At 9.98 million square kilometres, it is the second-largest country on Earth by area, only slightly smaller than Russia and roughly the size of all of Europe with a Brazil thrown in for scale. Almost all of that area is forest, lake, tundra, or otherwise lightly inhabited — Canada's population of 40 million is clustered in a narrow strip within a few hundred kilometres of the US border, which means most satellite frames of Canada show something other than where most Canadians live.
That asymmetry is what makes Canada both easy and hard to identify in geography games. Easy, because the empty interior has a handful of unmistakable signatures. Hard, because the populated south can look a lot like the northern United States, and the prairies can look a lot like Montana or North Dakota. This guide walks through the cues that lock Canada in confidently.
Read the full satellite guideCan you find Canada from above?
Play satellite-imagery rounds from Canada on a 3D globe.
Themed Canada modes
Restrict the location pool to Canada and pick a theme — volcanoes, capitals, coastlines. Smaller pool, sharper learning curve.