Visited provinces map of Canada
Mark the provinces and territories you have explored, then tick the cities, parks and landmarks you saw in each one to see how much of it you have covered.
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How this map counts
Canada has 10 provinces and 3 territories, and each is one place on this map. Your count and percentage are out of those 13.
That percentage is a share of provinces and territories. It is not a share of Canada’s land: Nunavut alone is a fifth of the country by area, and it counts for one thirteenth here.
To show how much of each one you have seen, open it in the list and tick the places you have been to. There are 178 places across the country: the 45 largest cities, every national park, the World Heritage Sites and a short list of well-known attractions. Each province and territory then shows its own percentage, and together they give one for Canada.
Those percentages are shares of the places on our list. Someone who has only been to Toronto has ticked 1 of Ontario’s 31 places, which is 3%. The list is a selection, so 100% means every place on it, not every corner of the province.
The map shows the same thing in colour. Once you have ticked a place, each province and territory you have marked is shaded by its percentage: the darker the green, the more of its places you have ticked. One with nothing ticked yet is the palest.
Once you have marked something, the panel also shows how much of Canada’s total area lies inside the provinces and territories you have marked, clearly labelled as a separate figure.
The map is drawn in the Lambert conformal conic projection that Statistics Canada and Natural Resources Canada use for national maps, which is why it looks like the Canada you know from an atlas rather than the stretched version on most web maps.
The 13 provinces and territories
| Name | Capital | Area (km²) |
|---|---|---|
| Atlantic Provinces | ||
| Newfoundland and Labrador NL | St. John’s | 405,212 |
| Prince Edward Island PE | Charlottetown | 5,660 |
| Nova Scotia NS | Halifax | 55,284 |
| New Brunswick NB | Fredericton | 72,908 |
| Central Canada | ||
| Quebec QC | Québec City | 1,542,056 |
| Ontario ON | Toronto | 1,076,395 |
| Prairie Provinces | ||
| Manitoba MB | Winnipeg | 647,797 |
| Saskatchewan SK | Regina | 651,036 |
| Alberta AB | Edmonton | 661,848 |
| West Coast | ||
| British Columbia BC | Victoria | 944,735 |
| The North | ||
| Yukon YT | Whitehorse | 482,443 |
| Northwest Territories NT | Yellowknife | 1,346,106 |
| Nunavut NU | Iqaluit | 2,093,190 |
Areas: Natural Resources Canada, Atlas of Canada. Regions: Government of Canada, Discover Canada. Read the full guide
Questions about this map
How many provinces and territories does Canada have?
Thirteen: 10 provinces and 3 territories. The territories are Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. The full list, with capitals and sizes.
Prince Edward Island is tiny. How do I select it?
Tick it in the list beside the map, which works at any size. On a phone, Prince Edward Island also gets a round marker on the map that is easy to tap, and you can zoom in with the plus button or a pinch.
What do I get for marking all 13?
The Complete Explorer achievement, which you can add to your poster as a seal. There are others along the way, including Coast to Coast to Coast for reaching the Pacific, the Atlantic and the Arctic. Each one lists its exact rule.
Does a stopover or a drive through count?
That is your call. There is no official rule for what counts as visiting a place. Pick one, such as “I got out of the car and did something”, and apply it to every province and territory.
I have only been to one city in a province. How do I show that?
Mark the province, then open it in the list (the line under its name that reads “0 of 31 places”) and tick only the places you have been to. The province then shows its own percentage: one city out of Ontario’s 31 listed places is 3%. Marking a province never ticks its places for you.
What does the percentage for a province, and for Canada, mean?
A province’s percentage is the share of the places we list for it that you have ticked. The figure for Canada is every ticked place out of all 178, so each place counts the same wherever it is. Neither is a share of land area, and the list is a selection, not everything there is to see. On your poster the figure for Canada is the large number and each province’s percentage is written beside its name. How the list is made.
Why are some provinces a darker green than others?
The colour follows the percentage. Once you have ticked a place, every province and territory you have marked is shaded by how many of its listed places you have ticked: pale for a few, the full green for all of them. A marked province with nothing ticked yet is the palest, and the key under the map shows the scale. Before you tick any place, all marked provinces are the same green. Your poster uses the same scale, and one switch in the poster studio turns it off.
Can I track cities as well?
Yes. Each province’s list includes its major cities, and the same 45 cities are on the Canadian cities map: a city ticked in one place is ticked in the other. Marking a province does not mark its cities. If your cities imply a province you have not marked, the page will offer to add it, and nothing changes unless you agree.