Which country is the second largest in the world by land area?

Canada is the second largest country in the world by total area. Only Russia is bigger. Canada is so vast that it stretches across the entire northern part of North America, reaching from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and all the way up to the Arctic Ocean in the north.

Despite its huge size, Canada is one of the most thinly populated countries on Earth. Much of its territory is taken up by remote forests, frozen Arctic land, mountains, and tens of thousands of lakes, where very few people live. Most Canadians actually live in a relatively narrow band near the country's southern border, leaving the vast northern interior almost empty.

Canada's great size brings some remarkable records. It has the longest coastline of any country in the world, the result of its endlessly indented shores and countless Arctic islands washing against three different oceans. It also shares the longest land border in the world with a single neighbor — its boundary with the United States to the south.

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