The Nunavut population is about 30,000 people. About the same for the Yukon and about 41,000 for NWT. All three are territories as oppose to provinces for the rest of Canada. Quebec is three times the size of France and seven times that of Great Britain. Quebec is the largest province of Canada.

>Looking at Canada with Google Earth, I've noticed how large are the states (I don't know if that is the right denomination - maybe provinces?) when compared to the USA states - from 2-3 times larger that most of them, and how few they are,
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>Ontario and Quebec have the size of whole countries!
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>Why is that? Due to climate (at the extreme north there are the Northwest Territories, the Yukon Territories and Nunavut, that seemed to me to be as desolated as Alaska)? Population distribution? Ethnics?