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Edward Island
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feature Canada's smallest province, known as the
Birthplace of Canada. Canada's major producer
of seed or table potatoes is also nicknamed Spud
Island. PEI consists of three counties, Kings
County, Queens County and Prince County and is
predominately rural while it's heritage attracts
over three quarters of a million visitors each
year to Charlottetown,
PEI's capital city. Prince
Edward Island (simply PEI or P.E.I.; French, l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard)
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Prince
Edward Island
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It
is the nation's smallest province in terms of both
size and population, but it has the highest population
density of all Canadian provinces at 24.47 persons
per square kilometer. The population of PEI is 137,800.
People from Prince Edward Island are called Prince
Edward Islanders. It
is located in a rectangle defined roughly by
46°–47° N, and 62°–64° 30'
W.
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Known
as the "Garden Province", the island
is located in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, east
of New Brunswick and north of Nova Scotia from
which it is separated by the Northumberland Strait.
The capital and largest city is Charlottetown,
situated centrally on the island's southern shore.
Summerside is the second largest city and is located
in Prince County, in the western part of the province.
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PEI,
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and Cornwall, the third and fourth largest communities,
are located immediately east and west of Charlottetown
respectively, placing more than a third of the province's
population within the capital region. Like many other
communities on Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown and
Summerside are both built around natural harbours. |
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