Happy Canada Day Wishes

Happy Canada Day !!

I thought I would do a little comparison of Canada & Costa Rica to celebrate my time here in Costa Rica and of course, Canada Day. So here goes.....


CANADA

Language: English & French

Money: Canadian dollar

Favorite Sport : Hockey (national: Lacrosse)

Favorite beverage: Coffee plus over 100 options of what to put in it, what temperature, with foam etc (costing well up to $7 per cup)

Size of Country: 9 984 670 square kilometres
(BC is 947,800 sq km & Vancouver Island is 31 284 sq km)

Population: 33,390,141

Gross National Income per capita: $32,590 US (2005)

Life Expectancy: 80.34 years old

Fun facts: Canada is the 2nd largest country in the world; 90% of people live within 100 miles of the US; Canada's land is almost half forest; Land is 1/10 of the world’s forests; longest coastline of any country in the world. National animal is the beaver

COSTA RICA

Language: Spanish

Money: Colone ($1cdn= 44o colonies)

Favorite Sport: Football (really soccer to us)...the other football is known as American Football

Favorite Drink: Coffee always hot; black w/ sugar or White w/ milk; what’s foam???
(and never more $1 per cup)

Size of country :51 284 square kilometres

Population: 4,133,884

Gross National Income: $4,700 US (2005)

Life Expectancy: 76.1 years old

Fun facts: Costa Rica has no military; has one of the most active Volcanoes in the world (Arenal); Plant species 9,000; insect species 34,000; reptilian species 220