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Official name: Canada.
Form of government: federal multiparty parliamentary state with two legislative houses (Senate [104]; House of Commons [301]).
Chief of state: Queen of Canada (British Monarch).
Representative of chief of state: Governor-General.
Head of government: Prime Minister.
Population (1998): 30,677,000.
Population projection: (2000) 31,472,000; (2010) 35,065,000.
Natural increase rate per 1,000 population (1996): 5.3 (world avg. 15.7).
Gross national product (1996): U.S.$569,899,000,000 (U.S.$19,020 per capita).
Land use (1994): forested 53.6%; meadows and pastures 3.0%; agricultural and under permanent cultivation 4.9%; built-on, wasteland, and other 38.5%.
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