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Parliament Hill monument Ottawa Canada, Canada
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83,328
Records
11
Datasets
94
Tables
11
Sources
319
SEL Fields
60
CCL Fields
📖 HERA Atlas 📕 HG Book 📊 HG Data
📋 Most recent national census: 2021. Included in HERA.
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Datasets (11)
SEL — DGIWG Statistical Extent Location SEL+ — Platform extension (not in DGIWG core spec) CCL — DGIWG Cultural Context Location Extension — Preserved in extension tables (not in core SEL/CCL schema) Pending — Awaiting mapping

4 further sources (Ethnic Power Relations Dataset, GI-TOC / ENACT, Global Data Lab, World Values Survey) are held but not offered: their licences do not permit commercial redistribution. HERA cites their published findings with attribution and can supply the data to organisations holding their own licence — ask us.

CAN Statistics Canada CAN-STATCAN Census
82,020 rows · 60 tables · 2021 Statistics Canada 0 1 2 3 168 SEL 4 CCL 5,852 ext ▶
CAN NGA GEOnet Names Server (GNS) CAN-NGA_GNS Language
252 rows · 3 tables · 2026 NGA GEOnet Names Server (GNS) 0 1 2 3 5 SEL 12 CCL 35 ext ▶
CAN World Bank Open Data CAN-WORLD_BANK Development Indicators
198 rows · 3 tables · 2024 World Bank Open Data 0 1 2 3 19 SEL 4 ext ▶
CAN D-PLACE CAN-DPLACE Ethnographic Societies
114 rows · 2 tables · 2024 D-PLACE 0 1 2 3 2 SEL 15 CCL 55 ext ▶
CAN UNHCR Refugee Data Finder CAN-UNHCR Migration
110 rows · 2 tables · 2025 UNHCR Refugee Data Finder 0 1 2 3 12 CCL 36 ext ▶
CAN Glottolog Language Catalog CAN-GLOTTOLOG Language
102 rows · 1 table · 2024 Glottolog Language Catalog 0 1 2 3 12 CCL 4 ext ▶
CAN LandScan Global (ORNL) CAN-LANDSCAN Modeled Population
68 rows · 3 tables · 2024 LandScan Global (ORNL) 0 1 2 3 Locality 21 SEL 2 ext ▶
CAN GHS Urban Centre Database (EU JRC) CAN-GHSL_UCDB Modeled Population
54 rows · 1 table · 2025 GHS Urban Centre Database (EU JRC) 0 1 2 3 Locality 3 SEL 7 ext ▶
CAN OpenFactBook CAN-OPENFACTBOOK Country Profile
17 rows · 17 tables · 2024 OpenFactBook 0 1 2 3 98 SEL 5 CCL 651 ext ▶
CAN Google Community Mobility (2020-2022) CAN-GOOGLE-MOBILITY Mobility
13 rows · 1 table · 2022 Google 0 1 2 3 3 SEL 8 ext ▶
CAN INFORM Risk Index (EC-JRC) CAN-INFORM Risk Index
1 row · 1 table · 2026 INFORM Risk Index (EC-JRC) 0 1 2 3 ▶
Toponymic Footprint 64,297 place names from NGA GNS

Which languages name the landscape here, and in which writing systems. A language's toponymic footprint and its speaker population are different measures and often diverge. Counts include variant and foreign-language renderings of the same place, so a language can rank high because outside sources record names in it rather than because it is spoken locally — and a widely spoken language can be almost absent where official naming is in another language.

LanguagePlace names Share*Script
French (fra) 4,483 36.1% —
Inuktitut (iku) 4,309 34.7% Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
English (eng) 1,751 14.1% —
Gwich'in (gwi) 834 6.7% —
Cree (cre) 357 2.9% —
Slave (Athapascan) (den) 179 1.4% —
Tlingit (tli) 158 1.3% —
Dän Kʼí, Northern Tutchone (ttm) 138 1.1% —
+ 8 further languages (195 names, each under 0.05%)

49,894 distinct features · 16 languages · 1 script · 1,734 names in non-Roman script
Source: NGA GEOnet Names Server (public domain) · rebuilt Thu, 24 Sep 2026.
* Shares are of the 12,404 names that carry a language code; the remaining 51,893 of 64,297 are unattributed, so these percentages do not divide into the headline count. Names follow the US/BGN convention.

Data Sources (11)

The data providers this country's datasets are sourced from — each links out to the provider.

SourceTypeAccess
Statistics Canada official_nso bulk_download
Google commercial bulk_download
INFORM Risk Index (EC-JRC) international_organization api
Glottolog Language Catalog academic bulk_download
World Bank Open Data international_organization api
D-PLACE (Database of Places, Language, Culture & Environment) academic bulk_download
UNHCR Refugee Data Finder (UN High Commissioner for Refugees) international_organization api
NGA GEOnet Names Server (GNS) official_government bulk_download
LandScan Global (ORNL — Oak Ridge National Laboratory) research_institution earth_engine
GHS Urban Centre Database (Global Human Settlement · EU Joint Research Centre) international_organization bulk_download
OpenFactBook community_compilation bulk_download

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