Eastern Canada


Eastern Canada is generally considered to be the region of Canada south of Hudson Bay/Hudson Strait and east of Manitoba, consisting of the following provinces : Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario.
Eastern Canada overlaps into other geographic regions; Ontario and Quebec, Canada's two largest provinces, define Central Canada, while the other provinces in Eastern Canada constitute Atlantic Canada. New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island are also known as the Maritime provinces.

Capitals

, Canada's capital, is located in Eastern Canada, within the province of Ontario.
The capitals of the provinces are in the list below:

Definitions

defines Eastern Canada as everything east of and including Thunder Bay, Ontario. This definition excludes from Eastern Canada the sparsely populated section of Northwest Ontario that is west of Thunder Bay, that section including Rainy [River District] and the most populated part of Kenora District.

Population

The total population of this region is about 25,135,649 in 2021, or about 70% of Canada's population. Most of the population resides in Ontario and Quebec. The region contains three of Canada's five largest metropolitan areas, Toronto being the List of [North American cities by population|fourth largest municipality] in North America.
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;Largest metropolitan areas:
The population of each province in 2016, from greatest to least is here:

Politics

Eastern Canada is represented by 232 Members of Parliament out of the 338 and 78 senators out of 105.