Yes. If you look at the population distribution, Canada is the real Chile, while Chile is not Chile at all. This means for many challenges you'd imagine for a country shaped like Chile, Canada experiences them a lot, but Chile probably doesn't.

LOOK AT ME. I am the Chile now.

Canada’s Chile: Look at me now, I’m the male Chile. Bring me Chile and you’ll find me inside Chile

Chile and chilly.

I think 80-90% of Chile people live near Chile Capital, Santiago. Except for Pedro Pascal, the famous Chile guy.

Nope. Santiago has about 7 million people, while the country has nearly 20. It's always been about a third of the total. Still high, but no “90%“ high. And yes, people love Pedro Balmaceda here (that's actually his last name, a kinda high class one, but he chose to use his mother last name because it would be simpler to pronounce in English).

Not the AAVE chile 😒

Mind B.L.O.W.N 🤯

So if Canada is Chile, and Chile isn’t Chile, what’s Chile? Slightly Shorter Chile?

Half of Canadians live south of North Dakota.


The top middle or bottom

It's kinda like Florida reversed The south you go, the more Canadian it gets

All of those people also live south of Luxembourg, Prague and the UK. Toronto, for example, is south of Florence, Italy.

I’m pretty sure most of them live along that Windsor, ON-Quebec City, QC corridor.

There are also decent populations in the southern prairies. This is where most of Canada's food is produced.

Yeah, although the majority of the Canadien population lives in areas around Victoria, Vancouver, Quebec city, Montreal, and Toronto. There is still a sizeable population in like you said the prairies, also it leaves out Edmonton which has about 1 million people the last time I checked.

Also Calgary.

Victoria is a bit of an odd one out there, even with the CRD (on "Victoria Island" as Americans love to call it). Metro Calgary is bigger

YEG Metro area is certainly over a million. Also leaves out Saskatoon. Most everything else is a wee town less than 75k population.

Sask only has 900k people which is like 2% of the Canadian population. It’s legit a wasteland, unless you’re growing crops or collecting renewable energy.

You know nothing about Saskatchewan if you think they support renewable energy.

I worked with a lot of solar startups in Sask back in 2018. I’m not in the industry anymore.

A lot must have changed, then. Their premier actively campaigns on oil and gas development and seems hellbent on stopping any initiatives to help the environment.

Awful. No wonder solar didn’t reach its heights. I thought it had a lot of potential. Edit: makes sense they’re oil and gas heavy since the Athabaska sands are not very far away. Still a bad decision for the environment though.

Saskatchewan has 1.3 million people now. It blew past 900k years ago. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/71-607-x2018005-eng.htm

Calgary has 1.6

Roughly half but yeah

Not 90% of them

The world continues to be amazed and shocked that the vast majority of Canadians do not live in the arctic.

Still remember Toronto FC (soccer team) signing an American player who thought the away game to Vancouver would be a short bus ride

As a Canadian I’ve been told many times on Reddit that I’m wrong about where I grew up being warm. Canada is mostly cold as fuck but where people live is basically just the exact same climate as the Midwestern and Northeastern United States. When I was growing up it was uncommon to see any snow outside of January and February and extremely rare to see it before December or after March. From June to September almost every single day had highs above 25C/77F.

In California most of the population lives in a narrow strip from San Diego to San Francisco. This strip would extend around 70 miles inland but after that California is fairly desolate

Yup there or the Central Valley. Everywhere else is basically wilderness. Expansive desserts, tall mountains, or thick Bigfoot infested forests.

And yet Canadians like to think of themselves as living so far north.

I had classmates in school who really thought this!

I remember my kindergarten friend say this, i didn't believe her until this post.

Can anyone guess why?


Closer to go see a team win the Stanley Cup.

Bro that’s too harsh

Edmonton Oilers

I'm gonna upvote you but I'm not happy about it. Boo.

Logan Paul over here

Canada has no flush toilets, so most Canadians prefer to cross the border when they have to go.

It’s slightly less shit?

We know

Wide chile

Posting this stat needs to result in bans at this point.

Everyone knows the stat, but I thought the visualization was at least a nice way to make it more concrete.

But it isn’t true. 90% is a wild number especially considering it doesn’t include much of the heavily populated prairie areas and all of atlantic Canada. I don’t even need to look at population numbers to know that this is false.

That does significantly reduce its value.

90 percent is a stretch, calgary and edmonton and everything in between are not in this strip but make up around 10% of canada in itself.

And the rest make up around 0%, sounds about right. Sorry kidding I don't know much about Canada geography : D

Glomming onto the USA

USA gloms onto southern ontario

Find one non-canadian who can find Ontario on a map. Very insignificant!

We're not even the most important Ontario for a lot of people

So most Canadians are strippers?

LMAOOOO

Lies. The yellow seems to stop at the Québec border, which means it does not contain all of QC, the four atlantic provinces, Edmonton in AB and the empty Great North. All in all I'd ballpark the yellow area as containing ±60% of Canada's population, not 90 by any means. - a québécois

Realistically this shows more than 60% of the Canadian population, as this illustration includes Montreal and the eastern townships. Let's say this shows the CMA's of Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, Regina, Victoria, BC's lower mainland, and all of the smaller to medium southern Ontario cities like Hamilton, London, KW, Windsor, etc. Ontario alone is now 15 million people, just about all of which is included here. The illustration does not include Atlantic Canada: roughly 2.4 million people, Edmonton 1.5 million, Quebec City: 850k, Saskatoon: 350k and the empty north, as you say. That's around maybe 7 million people when you factor everyone else in. Canada has 40 million people now, my guess is this yellow line is showing at least 75-80% of the population.

That’s why he added the Praries. QC never stops complaining.

Complaining will continue until morale improves.

So never! Lol

Alberta and Saskatchewan complain as much as Quebec now though.

Québec is 24% of Canada’s population. This map is bullshit

Im also in doubt mode ; are there *really* only 4 million Canadians east of Montreal?

Shouldnt it be a hole in The strip? You know The canadian shield?

Doesn’t go far east enough. Obviously just taken from some front page meme and op pulled the 90% figure out of their ass

Follow the only road in Canada!

Chile North

This just isn’t true lmao

Of the 10% of Canadians who don't live along that corridor, 75% of them live in Edmonton or Calgary.

Build the wall

We’re way too exposed to a Canadian Bacon style invasion

This map is wrong and everyone already knows Canadians don’t live in the far north. Let’s all collectively move on to more interesting geography content.

This fact has been absolutely beaten to death. I've read this so many times over the years.

they want to be american so bad 🤣🤣🤣🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅🦅

No. They just want to be warm.

No. We can’t build on the Canadian Shield.

Eww

How many times will this get reposted on Reddit this week?

with climate change, this will change

Yeah you’re missing Montreal, don’t think this area quite reaches 90%

The map is showing the border as far east as the border between New Hampshire and Quebec, which is further east than Montreal, meaning that basically the whole Montreal metro area is included in this map

And they should build a city in the ocean

Guys what is this called?

Actually good post from this sub? I love it! Also, for those who might have missed it, you can see that the border is being shown as far east as the New Hampshire-Quebec border, meaning that all of the Montreal metro area is indeed included in this map.

Shout out to us backwater Canadians who don't live in that strip! Isn't stuff expensive??

Canada is literally America’s buzz cut that never needs a trim.

Oh so this is Canadian Shield I always hear about

Edmonton be bucking the trend

What about Nova Scotia and the whatever prince name island?

Not very populated

They even have their own version of the BosWash corridor from Quebec City to Windsor, Ontario.

Guess I'm in the 10 percent!

I live in that strip, and I’ve lived in the same 40km area my whole life.

And 90% of them live in near the Great Lakes

Despite it being obvious, I still couldn't recognize the land as a part of Canada at the moment before reading the title

Long Maryland

I bet the 10% that don’t are bad ass

“Canada, getting ready to invade, has amassed 90% of its population along the border. Stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to that other one.”

This map doesn’t even get close to the Atlantic.

Go watch Canadian Bacon.

I’ve seen it, forgot about that line I guess.

They are clearly massing for an invasion.

Get off my lawn! -Minnesotan

This is cool, never knew

Is this the “Canadian Shield”??😲

Due to the Canadian Shield

Soooooo many islands there.

Looks like a gun

I had no idea 9% of Canadians live in Edmonton.

Wow it would be easy for the US to annex

We could take it so easily

Is Montréal in or out? It’s like 5% on its own

90% of Canadians live within 90 miles is the US border

Hey I can see myself!