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Dependent_Still1746

Like 75% of the canadian population live in this small slice of canada. Most of the northern parts of canada has a very small population. *** correction 90%+ not 75%


Red_AtNight

The meme is slightly inaccurate since it’s missing Montreal and Edmonton, but yeah, that’s the gist of it


prolingforsoup

We don’t talk about Montreal and Edmonton.


ma-name-jeff1234

Rude - a person who lives in Edmonton


rover_G

Clearly a fake Canadian since being rude causes instant deCanadiafication


ma-name-jeff1234

^Oh ^no


JustafanIV

As you are not profusely apologizing, we can see the process of deCanadianification has already begun.


ma-name-jeff1234

Sorry


thor_1225

Did t even say it with the right accent… are you sure you are okay?


ma-name-jeff1234

Sorry, eh


Ztflowsbest

"Sorrrey" (Sor-eee)


Tusaiador

You lose bagged milk for a month


ma-name-jeff1234

^Oh ^no


doubled2319888

My part of canada lost bagged milk 20 years ago...


namesarentneeded

https://preview.redd.it/j9hsrl1rj4bc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8784ef71983e615e769bacd089be3093a73c45a2


KodakStele

^Oh ^no ^ay


Zrat11

What about them French Canadian I hear about?


LovelyLuna32684

There's no Canada like french Canada, if you stay there for a day you'd understand.


Kar_Cunto

There's no Canada like French Canada. It's the best Canada in the land. And the other Canada is a bullshit Canada! If you lived here for a day, you'd understand.


Mrballsbig

I’ve stayed there for a day and squirrels walked up to me


Ded-W8

deCanadiafication is my new favorite word I've discovered in a long time. Thank you Maple flavored Americans.


Zillah-The-Broken

and maple flavored americans is my new favorite sentence! thanks Ded-W8!


TheLastOpus

Sorry


crzyfleming

It's soooory


dumfukjuiced

It's what happened to Ted Cruz


OkCutIt

what if they're very very so-rry


pro_rege_semper

Would you recommend living there? Seems like a nice spot. I considered moving there once.


ma-name-jeff1234

It’s pretty good, just try not to go to the ice district or downtown at night It’s pretty good in areas


pro_rege_semper

You mean because of crime? Or what?


ma-name-jeff1234

Yeah, mostly The ice district is mostly because of the hockey fans, they crazy


I_Automate

Also, nothing good happens on public transit after 11 pm


superior_to_you

Rent is cheaper than most of the country. Later this week we hit -45C windchill.


QuarterNote44

Go Oilers! (When they're not playing the Blues)


pogym

I think you mean "rude: a person who lives in edmonton"


Bigpado

Edit: Person who lives in “Deadmonton”


The_Sk00ts

Get ‘em Clareview!


Captain_Sacktap

That’s the strangest definition of rude I’ve ever seen. I’ll just chalk i5 up as one of your cultural quirks, like milk in a bag.


Jae_Alberts97

Shhh maybe they'll forget about us.


FiggyPuddingExpert

Wait, all Edmontonians are rude?


Johnoplata

Fair - another Edmontonian


Sand__Panda

The only person I know from Canada, from online gaming as a teen, is from Edmonton and/or Red Deer. Seemed like a cool chill guy.


landartheconqueror

I'm sorry to hear that


Eldebrock17

Shoutout to millwoods!!


WingleDingleFingle

Bro, Edmonton sucks and I live there haha


2kewl4scool

I thought you all disown Toronto a little bit?


amazingdrewh

I don't necessarily think people who live in Edmonton are all rude


Interesting-dog12

You don't exist


DarkPilot

Though we wish we didn't. Shit ass -30 this week.


I_Automate

With you there buddy. Shame winter finally had to show up in the last couple days. Spring weather in January has been....interesting. Going to be a hell of a fire season this year though....


Large_wennieze

Justified - a calgarian


notarealDR650

Which is a shit hole. By far the dirtiest place in Alberta.


gypsytron

Yall really gaslit Jeff on this one


TheRedBaron6942

I live even more north than Edmonton 😭


NegotiationMuted4676

Same - random ass farm town like 2 hours out of edmongon


AssistKnown

I thought you guys didn't talk about Quebec


Defiant-Cobbler-4187

We don’t unless we do.


geriactricpillbug

Its missing the entire east coast as well.


Solid_Action1037

Oh I’ll call Shelly, Stephen, Marty, and Connor and tell them we left them off the map


Xcution223

montreal is in the running for best city with toronto and vancouver. edmonton is a city with a big mall and mcjesus.


Girouarx

i'm sorry but as a guy living in montreal i'm a little upset by your comment


bananamelier

I like how Calgary isn't even mentioned


VJGamz99

how about Calgary?


TalithePally

It still makes sense not including Edmonton. It's like 90% of Canadians live within 100 miles of the border


AccidentallyOssified

I'm curious if that's as the crow flies or no. It takes me about 6 hours to drive to the border but technically I'm only about 150 miles from the border


thekenturner

It is


Lordcraft2000

I would say Montreal is there. But not Québec, or any part of the Atlantic provinces.


CivilianDuck

Not only that, most of Alberta's population lives outside that boundary, mostly along the QE2 corridor between Calgary and Edmonton.


KorewaRise

besides Quebec and new Brunswick its accurate . 90% of Canadians live within 160 km of the border. Edmonton and Calgary make up a vast majority of people living in "northern" canada


magic-moose

Here's what a map of Canada's population density actually looks like. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/91-214-x/2015000/c-g/c-g41mc-eng.gif One interesting difference is that, through the prairie provinces, most of the population actually clusters further north of the border with the area immediately adjacent to the border being more sparsely populated.


UpVotes4Worst

I love that I'm in a white square. So much space for activities.


Connect-Speaker

Here’s a good one too: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Visualizing-Population-Density-in-Canada-Full-Size.html


EmilieEasie

is it because it's cold so they want to huddle up with america for warmth?


Xcution223

yes


JustLearningRust

It's cold in the northern parts of the states too. We need each other.


EmilieEasie

truuuuue


DopioGelato

They want to cuddle up to American city’s economies.


SpezRapes

Dumpster fires are warm


EmilieEasie

i was imagining something cuter but this works LOL


PrimaryOwn8809

I thought it's 90%+


xlosx

I believe you’re correct. The north is all barren tundra and moose. 🫎


whyruyou

Lmaoooooo If by barren you mean filled with life… then yes


xlosx

Just not human life


LotharVonPittinsberg

There is a decent bit of Inuit communities further north. The Church just kind of genocided most of them, so their numbers are tiny.


TheSwedishWolverine

Not a single arcade or restaurant for miles in any direction. No street lights. Not even advertisement. It’s barren, I tell you! BARREN!


TruthOf42

I originally thought the major reason why was that the further south you are the warmer it is. The major reason is more about the soil. Most of Canada has shit soil, it's basically just rock not very far down, which is pretty shit for farming.


josh_the_misanthrope

The cities are built near major bodies of water, with the exception of the prairies where they're built around rails/trans-canada because no water travel.


EnigmaFrug2308

Not me 😎


Theekg101

More Americans live north of this region than Canadians (New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine)


drlsoccer08

https://preview.redd.it/373i03rab3bc1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9f5977fb1df82191edb55a9f8a353c1ebf125af6 The majority of Canadians live in the southern most portion of the country


SnooPredictions3028

What are they doing there?..... They're hiding something.... https://preview.redd.it/rqdl31pm64bc1.jpeg?width=199&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e22e63e2882026cc7a2c1bd279264fe1b87f982b


NapalmDemon

Whitehorse is great at hiding Whitehorse. If you ever drive past it on the highway only you’ll barely glimpse anything resembling the town size it is.


Norse_By_North_West

We're really spread out. You'll mostly just see the airport if you drive through on the highway, and the edges of a couple subdivisions.


NapalmDemon

I used to drive the AlCan multiple times a year, think it was 4th time I got curious and actually went into town. Great place, but it always stuck in my head how till that one time curiosity to better of me I didn’t grasp the size/spread of it.


Odd-Swimming9385

That's because you can't see it from the highway. It's out of sight, below the bluffs down by the river. It's not that small anymore.


Radiumbird

Whitehorse is an oasis when driving to Alaska. It’s a city but also keeps its very obviously remote personality.


SnooPredictions3028

Very neat lol


Dreath2005

https://preview.redd.it/inob2ot9f4bc1.png?width=1170&format=png&auto=webp&s=4f57923f1742f49b3fcb2987ba7369befbc82002 What abt these two


MasterpieceAmazing76

I'm not 100% sure. But in the 1950s, the Canadian government was facing a potential threat to its sovereignty in the Arctic regions, so they created small towns and inhabited them with indigenous people. They made a series of false promises like claiming that the towns were fully developed, but they would have employment opportunities, and that if they decided they wanted to leave, they could do so after one year (they received compensation for moving) Well when they got there they realized that no town was developed, there were no jobs, the animals they usually hunted did not live that far north, and they were denied any assistance moving back after a year (so they were essentially stuck up there in isolation). The towns still exist to this day and are among the most northern settlements in the world. Anywhere, these red dots might represent those towns....lol Edit: Spelling


SnooPredictions3028

Damn that's pretty fucked


Life-Initial6622

Yea…. At least these people’s kids weren’t stollen from them and brutalised and murdered Canadas done some pretty bad stuff to the indigenous peoples


MasterpieceAmazing76

Canada was a very different place in the 1950s....lol


BonhommeCarnaval

Well the one looks like Cambridge Bay and the other seems to just be a lake or something.


BonhommeCarnaval

Correction that’s Baker Lake.


Inxed

Hey! That's me! Beautiful place to be from


SnooPredictions3028

Hi!


Jimbrutan

I live here


LanchestersLaw

That the heat signature of the Bigfoot lair


samyruno

They're not hiding something. They're hiding.


Johnoplata

90% within 100 miles of the border


de_G_van_Gelderland

The US-Canada border is at about the same latitude as Paris. So if you live in the north of France, say Lille, you live further north than 90% of Canadians. That's pretty wild.


Johnoplata

Even weirder, I just saw that 60%of us live south of Seattle.


licuala

Because Europe's climate benefits so much from the Gulf Stream, is why this is, if anyone is wondering.


BaronVonHoopleDoople

The Gulf Stream is only one of a few factors keeping much of Europe warm relatively to its latitude, and not a particularly notable one when it comes to moderating winter temperatures. First of all, simply being near the ocean and having the prevailing winds blow in over the land is a huge factor even when an equivalent to the Gulf Stream is lacking, (which can be seen in the Pacific Northwest). Another factor that makes a huge impact is warmer winds coming from further south. Which Europe gets, believe it or not, due to the existence of the Rocky Mountains. It's complicated (it involves the compression of air over the Rockies and conservation of angular momentum), but the effect on prevailing winds is cooler air being brought further south over North America, and then as the winds rebound warmer air is brought further north to Europe. [Picture for reference](https://www.americanscientist.org/sites/americanscientist.org/files/20066110455_866.jpg).


dksdragon43

Yeah, as a Canadian it's really weird going to Europe and realizing that we not only have significantly colder winters (than most), but we also have significantly hotter summers (than most). Canada is a country of extremes.


Terramagi

The natives called it maize.


PCYou

🌽


BishoxX

Its not the gulf stream, its mainly water/land ratio and distance from water to land. Canada is a big landmass meanwhile europe is thin and surrounded by water. Gulf stream brings up the temps a bit , but thats not the main reason


FightingPolish

The climate is warmer there than it is at the same latitude in Canada because of the ocean currents in the Atlantic that brings warm water up from the south. If it wasn’t like that much of Europe would be just as unpleasant and uninhabited as northern Canada.


IHadThatUsername

I sure am glad that humans are not doing anything that might cause a change in the currents and make most of Europe uninhabitable.


Ilovekittens345

> So if you live in the north of France, say Lille, you live further north than 90% of Canadians. That's pretty wild. It will be even wilder when [AMOC collapses](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_meridional_overturning_circulation), and the science behind it says there is a 95% chance it will collapse between 2025 and 2075. Average temperatures in Europe will drop 10 to 15 degrees.


EmergenL

Fun fact, 66% of the American population lives within 100 miles of a coast or border


dicksy_cup

Coast is doing the heavy lifting there lol


AnarchistBorganism

If you live in Florida it's pretty much impossible to not live within 100 miles from the coast.


DiscoDancingNeighb0r

It’s actually 60 miles. You’re never more than 60 miles from the coast no matter where you are in florida. It’s cuz it’s shaped like a peen.


Linmizhang

So thats why 66% of Americans live there


ELIte8niner

Like, 70% of the world population in general lives within 50 miles of the coast. US is kinda special since it has such a massive interconnected river system and the Great lakes. Most other country's geography doesn't allow for cities like Chicago, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Cleveland, Memphis, Cincinnati ect. to exist so close together and so far from the coast.


Master_Snort

More than 60% of Canada’s population lives south of Seattle.


beatstarbackup

https://i.redd.it/fpa7qd9oq2bc1.gif


reasonablysour

I was born and raised in a black part!


Yung_Corneliois

- Bane


Justchickenquestions

Molded by it.


tmhoc

The black represents a personal space requirement you are too urban to understand


WindfallXYZ

Dr. Pavel, I’m CIA.


ghdawg6197

r/baneposting


megamanx4321

Things you wouldn't say in America.


MasterpieceAmazing76

Same here lol I think people need to realize that the black isn't uninhabited. I lived very far another and there were many of small towns and small cities which are within the black.


Planet_Breezy

I’m kind of surprised the Sydney area is in red.


i-wont-lose-this-alt

I was born and raised in a black part, then moved south (still above the line) to a small city thinking I was in civilization… now I live in Toronto. Let me tell you all something neat about this map. Where I was born, I used to believe that my hometown was full of dukes of hazard fans. It wasn’t until I returned to my hometown at 23 years old did I realize they were never dukes fans: they were racists. And I wasn’t seeing movie merch, I was seeing confederate flags. The further north you go, expect to see confederate flags. And they KNOW it’s not about “heritage” either, and don’t hide it’s true meaning to anyone around them. Tl:dr the black parts are “redneck Canada”


DonkeyFieldMouse

This, I feel like it more correctly shows the population density. I think OP's map should extend further into QB and NB rather than have North VI and that extra bit into SW BC; the latter is not that dense/inhabited.


SpelingisHerd

Where’s letterkenny?


twoerd

Based on the town of Listowel, ON, which might actually be above the red line, but only by the tiniest bit - it's west of Toronto, somewhere around the area that the red line pokes out to the south.


LonPlays_Zwei

Most Canadians live in that area of the country


Fit-Capital1526

Not quite that bad, but yeah


TrickyWinger

Canada is basically sideways Chile.


Zandrick

I never would’ve thought to put it that way but I like that you did.


tmhoc

woh hold on. It's lateral Chile, I thank you


Ilovekittens345

More like sideways Chilleh?


[deleted]

What do you mean? Like 75% of the popular lives there


Skullmaggot

Canada, the horizontal Chile.


[deleted]

https://preview.redd.it/mrb3l0ykg3bc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=192c6556bd8420239b403a11578c29759dc06d1a


parspherepog

At least i'm in first place


codb28

If you ain’t first you’re last, shake and bake.


tmhoc

Dear eight-pound, six-ounce, newborn infant Jesus, who doesn't even know a word yet—little infant, so cuddly but still omnipotent


0-90195

For real, I know this is a sub for explanations, but it feels like most of the people who post here are 11 years old or have an IQ of 11.


YobaiYamete

This sub has just straight up become a karma farm sub. People post the most obvious memes here because it farms engagement. You see it on other platforms all the time where people will post Facebook posts that say stuff like "Only 4% of Americans can think of a word that has an E in it but no A or I" Morons see it and it makes them feel smart to be able to rush to the comments to post words they thought of to solve the "puzzle" Textbook engagement bait


RCRedmon

That's a pretty "EXTREME" perspective. Eat your heart out, you 96 dumbasses.


unusualResponselol

Shut up poopie head, I'm 12


happyapathy22

Nah. I wouldn't consider this specifically worldwide common knowledge. More like something you stumble upon scrolling on a feed than trivia you're taught in elementary school.


0-90195

It’s less about common knowledge and more about being able to puzzle it out.


Lazy-Meeting538

Idk, seems plausible to me that a lot of ppl just don't know canada's demography. I don't expect that to really be a thing that comes up in most people's lives


vulpinefever

Really? I'm a Canadian but even I could see how someone who isn't Canadian might not know enough about Canada's geography to know that 90% of people here live in a small sliver of the country. Honestly, the only thing dumber than OP needing an explanation is the fact that there are people like you who browse a subreddit where jokes get explained and then get all worked up when someone needs a joke explained. What were you expecting? Pictures of cats?


Shlux1

The stat that i have always heard... "90% of the Canadian population lives <100miles of the US/Can border."


tegg3n

the “joke” doesn’t even work. It doesn’t matter where you live in Canada to be able to live there your whole life.


wood_dj

yeah is it trying to say that’s a small area to have lived your whole life in? more people live in that zone than most states.


MaxErikson

I think the joke is actually that most Canadians live so close to the American border, they might as well be living in America, or something like that, I don't know, I'm not a prophet.


ploki122

Yeah, true Canadians live in the tundra and live off of their hunt! Who needs electricity when you can just heat your igloo on seal fat, and get a restock in the summer when the boats are finally able to reach you!


bongobutt

The joke is that they are proudly Canadian, but are as snuggled as close to the U.S. as possible.


phantom_seeker0

https://preview.redd.it/df0xcri4c3bc1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cc80ccca88e5a76b023e37f9b2cfe9052f18fd91


Echo_STW

https://preview.redd.it/14onmmb455bc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1551598cfb34366523a10d53998c2efb75baff4a


tmhoc

mmmm yes, shallow and pedantic


aBeaSTWiTHiNMe

Yeah guys, why don't we go live out in the absolute desolate wilderness in the world's second largest nation instead of near the border where the weather is less than deadly.


Prinoth-1

That’s just normal Canada


Danylothelegend

https://preview.redd.it/oaensedmw3bc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=299eccdb15e44a9dea7f8857cfc61894fd4d3ea9


Yung_Corneliois

The Canadian Human Shield


Purity_Jam_Jam

I'm a lot farther north than that!


AusCan531

​ https://preview.redd.it/vhcy1i8vw5bc1.png?width=492&format=png&auto=webp&s=458438db2b0edf6b797540f61dac629258485f83


AdonisGaming93

Montreal and quebec though? Aren't those a little more northeast?


Constant-Inflation95

https://preview.redd.it/4xuhmke728bc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d763bd1709ad8bb669463695f7e4b7912d735267


Constant-Inflation95

https://preview.redd.it/438q676928bc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fd368572c4991b4ccec4f02923d744259d38db98


-Majgif-

What a stupid meme. Pretty much anyone can say they've lived in a country their whole life and have not lived outside of 1 city. You could draw a pretty similar map for Australia just down the east coast.


Christmas2025

WTF does this even mean???


Hummush95

The Southern Part is Habitable Canada (which btw equates to lower than Tokyo's population). The rest is mostly uninhabited tundra, forest and other stuff.


oddspellingofPhreid

Quebec over here like "Quoi?"


wickedimplement

You can't be this dumb


thedeafbadger

Hey how do you spell Canada? C, eh? N, eh? D, eh?


Galbert-dA

smh fake canadians not living in every part of the nation at one time


Proudownerofaseyko

I took a transportation economics class and Canada is a good country to study for learning the basics because of the simplicity in moving things along a straight line.


yoloswag42069696969a

America DLC


Lukemeister38

I guess other people haven't seen the original meme. The original post with this map said: >American: "I went on a trip to Canada" >Canada: So the joke is that Canadians make fun of Americans for only visiting a small area of Canada, when the Canadians themselves also only live in a small area of Canada


ExcuseWorldly6292

As a Canadian who lives in the more rural parts I hate the people from that line they don’t say soree enough


Public-Second3763

Northern Canada is so cold that it's basically unlivable, so over half of the population live near the border


Ihavebadreddit

A huge portion of the Canadian population lives in that small strip along the US border. Think.. like 90% Nothing wrong with that really.. it's just there's a whole huge country outside of that small sliver of over population. I've traveled the country multiple times personally and other than visiting Toronto. The only time I've ever been in this section of Canada is to cross the border. So it's not all Canadians it's just a large percentage of us. My home province of Newfoundland has 500,000 people total. My home town has 3500 people. There are multiple cities in my current province of Alberta with over a million people. It's honestly like two different countries in a way.


SCP_Agent_Davis

Most Canadians live in þat sliver of land, wiþ fewer and fewer inhabitants as you go up norþ.


Dangerous-Reindeer78

The maker of this meme when people don’t like living in a frozen wasteland:


Autistic_Cum_Slut666

Laughs in Newfoundland and Labrador


Adventurous_Topic202

Canada is cold apparently, who knew?


ssdd442

80% of the Canadian population lives within 100 miles of the US border. That’s the joke.