Canada - General Information By the size of the territory, Canada is second largest country in the world after Russia. Its population is small, 33,7 million people, only about one-fifth of Russia's. Canada is a federation that is governed as a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy with Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state. It is a bilingual nation with both English and French as official languages at the federal level. One of the world's highly developed countries, Canada ha...