The One Minute Geographer: More Canadian Trips

The fastest trip from Detroit to Eastport, Maine will go almost entirely through Canada. Map from Google Maps.

As we’ve been looking at population distribution in Canada, we need to keep in mind how big Canada is. It’s the world’s second-largest county after Russia. (The USA is fourth after China.) So distances are longer in Canada.

When we made the comparison between the Quebec City — Windsor strip and the Boston — Washington Megalopolis, I should add that the distance between the end cities…