OntarioCapital: Toronto. Ottawa, the national capital, is also here.
QuebecCapital: Quebec City. One of the four founding provinces of 1867.
British ColumbiaCapital: Victoria, on Vancouver Island. Joined Canada in 1871.
AlbertaCapital: Edmonton. A province since 1905.
SaskatchewanCapital: Regina. A province since 1905, the same day as Alberta.
ManitobaCapital: Winnipeg. Joined Canada in 1870.
Newfoundland and LabradorCapital: St. John's. The last province to join, in 1949.
New BrunswickCapital: Fredericton. One of the four founding provinces of 1867.
Nova ScotiaCapital: Halifax. One of the four founding provinces of 1867.
Prince Edward IslandCapital: Charlottetown. Joined Canada in 1873.
Territories 3
NunavutCapital: Iqaluit. The newest territory, split off the Northwest Territories in 1999.
Northwest TerritoriesCapital: Yellowknife. A territory of Canada since 1870.
YukonCapital: Whitehorse. A territory since 1898.
Hudson Bay and the Great Lakes 5
Hudson BayNamed for Henry Hudson, the English explorer.
Lake SuperiorThe largest of the Great Lakes, shared with the United States.
Lake HuronGeorgian Bay, its large northeastern arm, lies wholly in Ontario.
Lake ErieThe shallowest and southernmost of the Great Lakes.
Lake OntarioThe smallest Great Lake by surface area, and the easternmost.
How this list was compiled: Ten provinces and three territories, and each capital: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_and_territories_of_Canada, read 2026-09-23 (the same list data/canada-provinces-quiz.json checked on 2026-09-19; spellings and accepted names are copied from that file). Nunavut a territory since April 1, 1999: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunavut, read 2026-09-23. Dates of joining: the joined field of data/canada-provinces-quiz.json, checked there on 2026-09-19 against the same provinces article. Lake Michigan the only Great Lake entirely in the United States, the other four shared with Canada: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes, read 2026-09-23. Lake Superior the largest of the Great Lakes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Superior; Lake Erie the shallowest and southernmost: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Erie; Lake Ontario the smallest by surface area and the easternmost: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Ontario; Hudson Bay named for Henry Hudson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_Bay; Georgian Bay a bay of Lake Huron entirely within Ontario: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian_Bay; Quebec the largest province by area: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec. All read 2026-09-23. Capital points: Natural Earth 5.1.2 populated places (ne_10m_populated_places_simple.geojson, the Admin-1 capitals of Canada and Ottawa), put through the drawing's projection, then tested to fall inside their own province's shape. Water points: the Natural Earth 5.1.2 ne_10m_lakes label point of each lake, tested to fall inside the lake polygon and outside every drawn shape; the Hudson Bay point (60°N 86°W) tested to fall in open water. Licence: own work
The drawing: Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_50m_admin_1_states_provinces_lakes (scale 1:50,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_50m_admin_1_states_provinces_lakes.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Surrounding land from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_50m_admin_0_countries_lakes (scale 1:50,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_50m_admin_0_countries_lakes.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Albers equal-area conic projection, central meridian 96°W, standard parallels 50°N and 70°N. Outlines simplified; small islands are left out. Licence: public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)
How it works
This printable map of Canada numbers the ten provinces, the three territories, Hudson Bay and the four Great Lakes that touch Canada. Print it blank, numbered or named; the answer key prints on its own sheet.
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A blank map or a labeled one
Blank prints the outline with the borders and nothing written on it. Numbered puts 18 numbers on the map for students to fill in. Named writes every name on, for a copy to study from. Switch Capitals on to add a star at each provincial and territorial capital.
What is left off
Lake Michigan is not numbered: it lies wholly in the United States. Ottawa has no star, because the stars mark the 13 provincial and territorial capitals, and Ontario's is Toronto.
Prince Edward Island is too small to write on. The numbered sheet puts its number in a ring just above it.
Questions and answers
How many provinces and territories does Canada have?
Ten provinces and three territories. The territories are Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, the newest, split from the Northwest Territories in 1999.
Can I print the map with the capitals?
Yes. Switch Capitals on and each of the 13 capitals gets a star, from Victoria in the west to St. John's in the east. On the Named map each star carries its name.
Which Great Lakes are on the map of Canada?
Four: Superior, Huron, Erie and Ontario. Each is shared with the United States. Lake Michigan, the fifth, is wholly in the United States.