States: Australia and Canada

This category covers questions about Australian states and Canadian provinces and territories, including their capital cities.

Australia: state capitals

Australian Capital territory (principal city in – 34% of area, 99.5% of population)		Canberra
New South Wales		Sydney
Northern Territory (not a state)		Darwin
Queensland		Brisbane
South Australia		Adelaide
Tasmania		Hobart
Victoria		Melbourne
Western Australia		Perth

Australian state capital, named after the river on which it's situated (which in turn was named after the Scottish–born Governor of New South Wales from 1821 to 1825)		Brisbane
The only Australian state capital that's not (directly or indirectly) named after a person		Perth

Australia: other

The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) is an enclave within		New South Wales
Alice Springs and Ayers Rock are in		Northern Territory
Australia's most north–easterly state		Queensland
The Gold Coast (a major tourist destination) is the second–largest city in
The Great Barrier Reef is off the coast of
Australian state that borders all the others (except Tasmania); Lake Eyre is in		South Australia
Smallest and most southerly of Australia's six states; Launceston is its second largest city		Tasmania
Largest Australian state, in area		Western Australia
Eighty Mile Beach (actually 140 miles long!)

Canada: provincial capitals

Alberta		Edmonton
British Columbia		Victoria
Manitoba		Winnipeg
New Brunswick		Fredericton
Newfoundland and Labrador		St. John's
Nova Scotia		Halifax
Ontario		Toronto
Prince Edward Island		Charlottetown
Quebec		Quebec
Saskatchewan		Regina

Canada: territorial capitals

Northwest Territories		Yellowknife
Yukon		Whitehorse
Nunavut (Canada's newest territory: separated from Northwest Territories 1999)		Iqaluit

Canada (provinces and territories): other

Newfoundland's name changed to Newfoundland and Labrador (Labrador is the mainland part of the province; Newfoundland is an island)			2001
Named after the sixth child and fourth daughter of Queen Victoria			Alberta
Calgary is the largest city, and Edmonton is the second largest, in
Jasper and Banff National Parks
Red Deer is the third largest city, and Medicine Hat is the sixth largest, in
The only Canadian province that has a Pacific coastline			British Columbia
Collective name for New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island			Maritime Provinces
The Inuit territory of Nunavut, created in 1999, was previously part of			North West Territories
Largest in area, and second least populous, of Canada's provinces and territories			Nunavut
Collective name for Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan			Prairie Provinces
Canada's most populous province – has almost 40% of the total population			Ontario
Ottawa, the national capital of Canada, is in
Borders four of the Great Lakes (all except Michigan, which is entirely within the USA)
London (a city on the River Thames) is in
Canada's smallest province, by both area and population			Prince Edward Island
Canada's largest province, by area			Quebec
Name means "swift flowing river" in native (Cree) language; includes Prince Albert National Park			Saskatchewan
Canada's smallest and westernmost territory; forms most of the border with Alaska			Yukon

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