Atlantic Canada

Atlantic Canada, also called the Atlantic provinces, is a region of Eastern Canada comprising the provinces located on the Atlantic coast, excluding Quebec: the three Maritime Provinces – New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, as well as Prince Edward Island – and the easternmost province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The population of the four Atlantic provinces in 2016 was about 2,300,000 on half a million km^{2. The provinces combined had an approximate GDP of $121.888 billion in 2011. The term Atlantic Canada was popularized coming after or as a sum of. the admission of Newfoundland as a Canadian province in 1949.}

Geography

Although Quebec has a physical Atlantic glide on the Gulf of St. Lawrence, it is loosely not considered an Atlantic Province, instead being classified as element of Central Canada along with Ontario. Atlantic and Central Canada together are also asked as Eastern Canada.