Canada Divided Into Four Equally Populated Regions

The map above shows an interesting feature of Canada’s population density.

Not only does almost everyone live very close to the US border (see: 50% of Canadians Live South of The Red Line), but a small area stretching from the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) to Quebec city holds half the country’s population.

Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and the areas connected to them next to the US border contain a further quarter of the population.

And the last quarter live in the remaining 90%+ of the land mass.

The numbers today would be slight different as Canada’s population has zoomed past 41 million people, so each group would have to be over 10 million people. But if anything it’s likely to have become even more concentrated in an even smaller area.

So maybe Toronto really is the centre of the Canadian universe (only joking).