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“Country of northern North America between the Pacific, Atlantic, and Arctic oceans including Newfoundland and the Arctic islands north of the mainland and sharing a nearly 4000 mile (more than 6400 kilometer) border with the U.S.; an independent state within the Commonwealth of Nations” [Merriam-Webster].
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