Canada Provinces Quiz

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Canada Provinces Quiz

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Write the name of each numbered province or territory, then its capital.Answer key

  1. Alberta · Edmonton
  2. British Columbia · Victoria
  3. Manitoba · Winnipeg
  4. New Brunswick · Fredericton
  5. Newfoundland and Labrador · St. John's
  6. Northwest Territories · Yellowknife
  7. Nova Scotia · Halifax
  8. Nunavut · Iqaluit
  9. Ontario · Toronto
  10. Prince Edward Island · Charlottetown
  11. Quebec · Quebec City
  12. Saskatchewan · Regina
  13. Yukon · Whitehorse

Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2. Licence: public domain.

Each province or territory is a button. Use the arrow keys to move between them and Enter to choose. Names are read out in Study, and once a province or territory is answered.

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Eastern Canada 6

  1. New Brunswick (capital: Fredericton) Capital: Fredericton. The largest city is Moncton. It is the only province with both English and French as official languages. The 12.9 km Confederation Bridge links it to Prince Edward Island.
  2. Newfoundland and Labrador (capital: St. John's) Capital: St. John's, on the island. The Strait of Belle Isle separates the island of Newfoundland from Labrador on the mainland. It joined Canada on March 31, 1949, as the tenth province.
  3. Nova Scotia (capital: Halifax) Capital: Halifax, which is also the largest city. It is one of the four original provinces of July 1, 1867, with Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick.
  4. Ontario (capital: Toronto) Capital: Toronto, the largest city in Canada. Ottawa, the national capital, is also here. It has the most people of the 13: 14,223,942 in the 2021 census.
  5. Prince Edward Island (capital: Charlottetown) Capital: Charlottetown. It is the smallest province. Its area is 5,660 square km, with 154,331 people in the 2021 census. It joined Canada on July 1, 1873.
  6. Quebec (capital: Quebec City) Capital: Quebec City. The largest city is Montreal. It is the largest province by area, at 1,542,056 square km, and the only one whose sole official language is French.

Northern Canada 3

  1. Northwest Territories (capital: Yellowknife) Capital: Yellowknife. It has 11 official languages, nine of them Indigenous. Nunavut was separated from it on April 1, 1999.
  2. Nunavut (capital: Iqaluit) Capital: Iqaluit, on Baffin Island. It is the largest of the 13 at 2,093,190 square km and has the fewest people, 36,858 in the 2021 census. It was created on April 1, 1999.
  3. Yukon (capital: Whitehorse) Capital: Whitehorse. The highest point in Canada is in its southwest. That is Mount Logan, at 5,959 m. Yukon became a territory on June 13, 1898.

Western Canada 4

  1. Alberta (capital: Edmonton) Capital: Edmonton. The largest city is Calgary. It became a province on September 1, 1905, the same day as Saskatchewan.
  2. British Columbia (capital: Victoria) Capital: Victoria, on Vancouver Island's southeastern tip. The largest city is Vancouver, on the mainland. It joined Canada on July 20, 1871.
  3. Manitoba (capital: Winnipeg) Capital: Winnipeg, which is also the largest city. It became a province on July 15, 1870, the first to be added after the original four of 1867.
  4. Saskatchewan (capital: Regina) Capital: Regina. The largest city is Saskatoon. It became a province on September 1, 1905. With Alberta and Manitoba it makes up the Prairie provinces.

How this list was compiled: Names, capitals, largest cities, dates of joining, total areas, 2021 census populations and official languages written for this site and checked on 2026-09-19 against https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_and_territories_of_Canada. Names in English and French, the province or territory category and the postal two-letter codes checked the same day against https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:CA. Other facts, all read on 2026-09-19: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Canada (Mount Logan, the Prairie provinces), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_Bay, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60th_parallel_north, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93United_States_border, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Canada, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newfoundland_and_Labrador, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederation_Bridge, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunavut, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario. Neighbors, coasts and shapes named in the hints were worked out from the drawing itself. The three groups come with the drawing (Natural Earth's regions) and are made for zooming; they are not an official division of Canada. 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

Canada has no states: it has 10 provinces and 3 territories, and this Canada provinces quiz asks for all 13 on a blank map. Choose Name it and the quiz asks for each capital, from Victoria in the west to St. John's in the east.

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Provinces first, then capitals

In Name it both the name and the capital have to be right, which makes this a provinces and capital cities of Canada quiz. Five capitals are not the largest city, among them Victoria (Vancouver is larger), Edmonton (Calgary) and Quebec City (Montreal). A miss shows the right shape; the end card repeats just those.

Three regions and a tilted map

The regions under Start from zoom to Western Canada (4 provinces), Eastern Canada (6) or Northern Canada (the 3 territories). The conic projection is centered on 96°W, so Yukon leans toward the top left and the 60th parallel, between the western provinces and the territories, shows as a curve. Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec touch Hudson Bay. Prince Edward Island has a numbered ring just north of it.

  • Learn the west as a row, from the Pacific inland: British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba. Alberta and Saskatchewan are the two with no coast.
  • The territories run west to east: Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut. Nunavut, created in 1999, is the largest of the 13.
  • New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island are the Maritime provinces. Add Newfoundland and Labrador for the four provinces of Atlantic Canada.

Questions and answers

Does Canada have states or provinces?

Provinces and territories. Canada has no states, so a Canada states quiz is really this one: 10 provinces and 3 territories. Provinces hold their powers under the Constitution Act, 1867, while the federal Parliament hands the territories theirs.

Is Labrador a separate province?

No. Labrador is the mainland part of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, along the northeast edge of Quebec, and the Strait of Belle Isle separates it from the island. Its official name has included Labrador since December 6, 2001. Typing Newfoundland alone still counts.

Can I answer in French?

Yes. French names count, with or without accents: Nouvelle-Écosse, Colombie britannique, Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador and the rest. So do the two-letter postal codes from AB to YT, plus PEI and NWT. New Brunswick is the only province with both English and French as official languages.

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