Canada 🇨🇦
Canada is part of Americas with main city at
Ottawa. Its Developed country with a
population of 36M people. The main currency is Canadian Dollar. The languages
spoken are English and French. Canada is the formal name of Canada It is adviced to Exercise normal safety precautions Get useful information like travel advice, temperatures, rainfall, socket plugs,
languages spoken, SIM cards, ATM, currencies, road rules and emergency numbers.
👍 Developed 🌤️ ~-24.66 °C 🌧 ~28.13 mm 👨👩👦👦 36M people
Advice
Weather ⚠️ Travel advice
fiber_manual_record Exercise normal safety precautions
We've reviewed our travel advice for Canada. We haven't changed our level of advice: Exercise normal safety precautions in Canada.
issued date: November 4, 2019
🌤️ Temperature
🌧 Rainfall
General
🔌 Sockets
Canada uses 120V, 60Hz with sockets and plugs Type A and Type B.
🌐 Languages
The languages that are typically spoken are English and French
💱 Currencies Used
Canada uses the Canadian dollar (symbol: $), code CAD.Banknotes come in denominations of 100, 50, 20, 10 and 5 dollars. Dollar is subdivided into 100 cents. Coins come in denominations of 2 and 1 dollars and 50, 25, 10 and 5 cents.
🏧 ATMs
Automatic teller machines are everywhere in Canada. Pretty much anywhere you look there will be an ATM. Canada has one of the highest ATM densities in the world.You do not need a chip & PIN card to use an ATM — your standard magnetic card will work fine.
💁♂️ Tipping
Expected to tip Tipping is quite common in Canada and it's good etiquette to leave one. How much money you leave depends on the service and how happy you were with it.
📡 Internet
Internet speed in Canada is on average 13.1 Mbps. WiFi coverage in Canada is very high. Most hotels, hostels, cafes, restaurants and bars have it.
📱 Phones
You can buy a SIM card for about C$53.48, which includes 5 GB of data plan. You can choose from 4 telecoms: Bell Wireless, Rogers Wireless, Telus or Wind. Canada uses GSM mobile networks GSM 850 and GSM 1900. If you don't want to buy SIM card in Canada upon arrival, make sure to check the roaming charges with your telecom provider before your departure so there are no surprises when you return home.
📞 Calling
To call Canada, dial +, then 1 (the country code for Canada), then the area code (without the initial 1) and the local number. For local calls within Canada, start with the area code (with the initial 1). In the case above area code is 204 .
🛣️ Road rules
In Canada you drive on the right side. Most cars have automatic transmission. Unless otherwise posted, the speed limits for cars and motorcycles are as follows: 30-80 km/h (18-49 mph) in all built-up areas, 60-100 km/h (37-62 mph) on undivided highways, 70-120 km/h (43-74 mph) on motorways and 70-120 km/h (43-74 mph) on expressways.
🆘 Emergency
Universal
112
Police
112
Ambulance
112
Fire department
112
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