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Outside magazine, June 1996

More Maple Leafs Than You Can Shake a Hockey Stick At
By Cory Johnson

Mention the word Canada, and ice hockey and off-kilter accents come to mind. What you may not realize is that Canada, as the second largest country in the world, is an immense stretch of untrammeled wilderness that makes the United States look like a poor man's playground.

	United States	Canada
Land area, square miles	3,618,770	3,849,670
Population	264,418,109	29,733,00
Number of cities larger than 500,000 population	23	9
Wild polar bear population	5,000	15,000
Miles of coastline	12,383	33,705
Largest national park	Wrangell-St. Elias, Alaska: 13,018 square miles	Wood Buffalo, Alberta/Northwest Territories: 17,298.1 square miles
Starting national park ranger salary (U.S. dollars)	$17,055	$26,333