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Canadian
province, one of the four British colonies federated into the
Dominion of Canada in 1867. It comprises the peninsula of Nova
Scotia, Cape Breton Island (separated from the mainland to the
southwest by the narrow Strait of Canso), and a number of small
adjacent islands. The total area is 21,425 square miles (55,490
square kilometres). Along the 17-mile- (27-kilometre-) wide
Chignecto Isthmus, which seems to thrust the peninsula into the
Atlantic Ocean, runs the province's only land boundary, with New
Brunswick to the west. Two arms of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the
Northumberland and Cabot straits, separate it, respectively, from
Prince Edward Island on the north and Newfoundland on the northeast.
To the east lies the Atlantic and to the southwest the Bay of Fundy.
Halifax is the capital.
Visit
the Nova Scotia Department of Tourism Web Site for more
information
Choose
your Destinnation.....
Baddeck
(Cape Breton Island)
Digby
Guysborough
Western
Shore
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