Kanada topic
west coast. It also extends southward from the North Pole to the US
border. Canada`s northen coast is washed by Arctic Ocean, eastern
coast by the Atlantic Ocean and western coast by the Pacific Ocean.
Canada is so big that it contains six time zones. This huge land mass
has been divided by nature into 6 distinct geographical regions.
Stretching across the north is the Artic region. On the east there is
another geographical unit called the Applachian Region after the range
of mountains which run through the New England states north into
Canada. Moving west, we come to the largest region of all, the
Canadian Shield. This extends like a huge semi-circular ring around
Hudson Bay. It is rugged, stony and with thin soil. Southeast of the
Shield is the Valley of the St. Lawrence River which embraces the parts
of Quebec and Ontario that lie along that river and Lakes Ontario and
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