Newfoundland and Labrador

Newfoundland and Labrador locally is the easternmost province of Canada. Situated in the country’s Atlantic region (which is north), it incorporates the island of Newfoundland and mainland Labradorto the northwest, with a combined area of 405,212 square kilometres (156,500 sq mi). In 2011, the province’s population was 514,536. As of the second quarter of 2013, the estimated population was 513,586. Approximately 92 percent of the province’s population lives on the Island of Newfoundland (including its associated smaller islands), of which more than half live on the Avalon Peninsula. The province is Canada’s most linguistically homogenous, with 97.6% of residents reporting English (Newfoundland English) as their mother tongue in the 2006 census;.^[7] Historically, Newfoundland was also home to unique varieties of French, and Irish, as well as the now-extinct Beothuk language. In Labrador, local dialects of Innu-aimun and Inuktitut are also spoken.

Newfoundland and Labrador’s capital and largest city, St. John’s, is Canada’s 20th-largestCensus Metropolitan Area, and is home to almost 40 percent of the province’s population. St. John’s is the seat of government, home to the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador and the highest court in the jurisdiction, the Newfoundland and Labrador Court of Appeal.

A former colony and dominion of the United Kingdom, Newfoundland and Labrador became the tenth province to enter the Canadian Confederation on March 31, 1949, as Newfoundland. On December 6, 2001, an amendment was made to the Constitution of Canada to change the province’s official name to Newfoundland and Labrador. In day-to-day conversation, however, Canadians generally still refer to the province itself as Newfoundland and to the region on the Canadian mainland as Labrador

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