Fill in the blanks with the appropriate words.
CANADA
Canada is the largest ___ (1) in the
American, ___ (2) and the second largest (3)
in the ___ (4). It has a ___ (5) of 24 million in
an ___ (6) of 9,976,185 square (7).
Britain and ___ (8) fought over Canada for
nearly two hundred years. Finally, in 1763
Britain took ___ (9).
Canada is now an ___ (10) country with its
own Prime Minister, but the head of ___ (11) is
still the British ___ (12).
Canada is a bilingual country. The majority of the population ___ (13) English. Most
French speakers live in the ___ (14) of Quebeck.
Canada’s largest ___ (15). Montreal, is in Quebeck. It has a population of 2,270,430.
But Montreal is not the ___ (16) city. The ___ (17) is Ottawa in the province of Ontario.
Canada is a ___ (18) country. The longest ___ (19), the Mackenzie, flows for 1,600
km into the Arctic ___ (20). It is also a very ___ (21) country. It has many ___ (22) (cars,
electrical goods, etc.). It produces almost every ___ (23) (gold, silver, iron, copper,
uranium, oil, coal, etc.). Canada is the world’s ___ (24) producer of nickel, the second
biggest ___ (25) of zinc and the third biggest producer of lead. ___ (26) is also one of the
world’s biggest producers of wood and ___ (27) (44 % of the land is forest). ___ (28)
(mostly wheat and cattle) is important too.
The national ___ (29) of Canada is the maple leaf and the currency is the Canadian
___ (30).
the Republic of Ireland.[note 9] Apart from this land border, the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, with the North Sea to its east, the English Channel to its south and the Celtic Sea to its south-south-west, giving it the 12th-longest coastline in the world. The Irish Sea lies between Great Britain and Ireland. With an area of 242,500 square kilometres (93,600 sq mi), the UK is the 78th-largest sovereign state in the world and the 11th-largest in Europe. It is also the 21st-most populous country, with an estimated 65.1 million inhabitants.[11] Together, this makes it the fourth-most densely populated country in the European Union.