About US Canada Map
The above USA Canada map shows both countries, the United States and Canada, along with their first-level administrative divisions - all 50 states of the United States and the 10 provinces of Canada. The state of Hawaii is shown in an inset.
The US Canada map also displays the continental boundary, international boundary, state boundaries, provincial boundaries, scale, and legend. Neighboring countries such as Russia, Greenland, Mexico, Cuba, Jamaica, and Haiti are also shown, along with major water bodies including the North Pacific Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, Arctic Ocean, and several seas.
List of U.S. States Shown on the US Canada Map
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
List of Canadian Provinces shown on the US and Canada Map
Alberta
British Columbia
Manitoba
New Brunswick
Newfoundland and Labrador
Nova Scotia
Ontario
Prince Edward Island
Quebec
Saskatchewan
The United States and The Canada
The international boundary between the United States and Canada stretches 5,525 miles from the Pacific Northwest's rocky coastal coves to the oceanfront of the East. It is the longest undefended border in the world and each day more than 400,000 people and $2.7 billion in merchandise cross it to live, work, visit, or shop. For one mother in Windsor who is daily visited by her children from the American side, the border is more than a boundary -- it is an aspect of everyday family life and serves as a subtle reminder of the way geography has shaped a peaceful union between two otherwise quarrelsome nations. Based on the Rush-Bagot Treaty of 1818 (which reduced military presence on the Great Lakes), this border has evolved from being a fault line from colonizing rival Empires to becoming the physical manifestation of a trust that has enabled two former adversaries and contentious neighbors to pledge peace and stability on their shared border. Each day customs officials greet each other on each side and both stamp each other's passports and share stories of each other's countries and people -- surrounded by a buzz of commercial activity that daily dramatizes the possibility of peace and neighbors living with unity and confidence that they have chosen not to fight each other.
Economic Interdependence
It’s the economic bonding that has made the duo one of the biggest in the world. The two countries have been trading in $719.5 billion worth of goods and services annually as of 2025, and remain each other’s largest trading partners. The US has the largest population in the world, estimated to be 349 million as of 2026, and Canada is the largest supplier of crude oil to the country. This oil is fed into refineries, power plants and other facilities across the US Midwest and other parts of the country that generate fuel for anything from cars to factories. The US, in turn, delivers vast quantities of manufactured goods, including products such as machinery, automobiles and pharmaceuticals that are a vital source of income in Canada. Canada has a population of 40.5 million people, mainly concentrated in the same belt of land as the US, including vast tracts of farmland and forestland from which it also delivers large quantities of natural gas, lumber and automobiles, the latter to support construction activities and factories across the border. In 2020, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement or USMCA replaced the more than a quarter-century-old North American Free Trade Agreement. Under USMCA, more than 85% of US-Canada trade has been exempt from tariffs, enabling the creation of a large, borderless production and distribution network across the three countries. Every day, millions of automobile parts are assembled and shipped from one country to another in this vast free trade zone that is increasingly drawing in Mexico as an important supplier. The economic gains from this cross-border trade amounts to $1.2 trillion in annual GDP for both countries. This is not just a numbers exercise to economists. An autoworker in Windsor knows that the car parts he is assembling and sending off to Detroit a few hours away down the highway or to other parts of the US are highly in demand. Similarly, a wheat farmer from Saskatchewan knows that the wheat he is harvesting and sending by rail and truck to mills in California and elsewhere in the US is always in demand.
Diverse Societies and Governance
The two countries’ lands seem to blend into each other almost imperceptibly, yet the societies created within them have come to be incredibly distinct and different as a result of the large waves of immigration throughout the 389.5 million people who inhabit each. In the federal republic of the United States that has a president that serves as head of state and of government, the multicultural cities that characterize it – be it the lively Hispanic cities of Miami or the various districts of the multicultural city of Seattle that highlight the individualism inherent to American society as well as its private health care system that goes hand in hand with the social aspects of the most disadvantaged sectors of society. In Canada, a parliamentary system with a constitutional monarchy –in which King Charles III is merely a symbol and the prime minister holds executive power—there is bilingualism, a characteristic that defines all aspects of the country, particularly in its Francophone majority region of Quebec, which makes universal health care an aspect of social equality. As a result of differences in their constitutions and historical evolution, in the United States the country was formed as a result of a revolution that created by a fervent revolutionary desire while in Canada it was a federal evolution process. Yet for every bilingual student studying at an American university in Ottawa or for every retiree who comes each winter from Buffalo to Halifax, the differences that set each country apart also represent, in equal measure, a source of diversity and an element that contributes to cross-border intellectual exchange on a continent that transcends borders.
Security and Defense Alliances
With the world in increasing turmoil the United States and Canada remain firmly at the foundation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). Both countries have been standing watch over North America jointly from the melting Arctic ice cap in the north to the world of cyber space in the lower atmosphere. The modernization of NORAD was extended until 2026 and is part of a program that is being funded to the tune of $38.6 billion by Canada to upgrade the radar systems and structures. The Canadians and Americans work together 24/7/365 with other than commercial airliners detected by radar manned by Canadian and American personnel. The intelligence gathered on terrorism, cyber space threats and other law enforcement matters are also routinely shared between the two countries and the other members of the Five Eyes Program which also includes the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. The border between the two countries is sufficiently secure to remain open for millions of travelers while at the same time adequate measures have been put in place to deal with drug and human trafficking. For the Canadian Mountie working the border with a U.S. Border Patrol agent, and for the members of the Canadian and U.S. militaries who for years have taken part in combined training exercises in the south to prepare for a possible invasion in the North, the ongoing partnership between Canada and the U.S. is reassuring as it continues to promote peace as the ongoing legacy between the two closest friends.
Environmental Stewardship Across Frontiers
A year in a relationship built to last The United States and Canada have a unique bond that has been strengthened over time through the management of their shared environment. Through successful treaties such as the Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909 and the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement of 1972 — modified in 2025 to address invasive species, nutrient pollution and climate change-related algal blooms that impact the health of millions of people living in the Great Lakes region, among other things. These nations work together in the Arctic Council to study the effects of sea ice loss on Inuit communities and the decrease in beluga whales that migrate to their shores. As signatories to the Paris Agreement, both aim to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The two countries are increasingly cooperating to reduce industrial emissions crossing their border, having lowered them by 15 per cent since 2020, with disputes over issues such as the legacy of the Keystone XL pipeline and oil sands regulations remaining but still managed through dialogue, as demonstrated by the climate resilience fund for border forests affected by wildfires the two countries created in 2026 Having spent countless hours fishing on the shores of Lake Superior or trying to catch glimpses of grizzlies that roam the wilderness of Montana and Alberta, we know our waters and wildlands transcend borders and require us to be global guardians of the lands we share.
Cultural and Human Connections
From the cacophony of chants in Boston’s Garden as Bruins fans taunt Toronto Maple Leafs supporters to the casual trading of recipes at a typical family gathering in Vancouver-Tacoma, there is an intimacy to the current of culture that flows from one side of the border to the other. Montreal’s annual Jazz Fest features American headliners; Hollywood rolls out American movies that often include Canadians; and talents ranging from Joni Mitchell to Lin-Manuel Miranda have grown up in each country. The programs of annual study-abroad exchanges that send about 20,000 students to the other side each year — Canadians to learn about U.S. fields such as science, technology, engineering and mathematics, and Americans to study Canadian environmental policy — are a harbinger of a new generation of young people that is aware of the transcontinental issues that the relationship must help to solve. Tourism — a victim of post-9/11 anxieties and the heightened security procedures that now exist at both U.S. and Canadian borders — rebounded to about 15 million people visiting each side by 2025, despite a decline of about 28 percent in visits from Canada to the United States compared with 2000, and restored attention to the many attractions each country has to offer the other, including some of the world’s most extraordinary natural landscapes, such as the powerful falls of Niagara, the blue glaciers of Banff National Park and the vibrant cities of Toronto and Seattle. There are many other ways that the two sides of the border continue to weave together on a human level, from sports and the arts to academics and tourism. Ultimately, the free trade agreement and its successors are only a part of what links Canada and the United States. The relationship is underpinned by such everyday things as the holiday festivals of border towns, the sense of solidarity that most people on both sides feel during particularly harsh winters, and the growing awareness that the two countries are becoming part of a broader, interdependent world that is dramatically different from the insulated systems that existed in the decades after the wars of 1914-1918 and 1939-1945.
Navigating Challenges in a Shared Future
Canada and the US are a couple who have chosen to stay together. While they disagree over everything from softwood lumber to dairy products, trade wars are projected to reach $500 million in tariffs by 2025, they have different views over defence spending and navigating the Arctic and there have been periodic tensions over the influx of migrants at the US border and Canada’s immigration points system. But they have learned to compromise – this month the USMCA review panel was able to fairly quickly arbitrate the debate over tariffs on batteries used in electric vehicles. There are also many opportunities to strengthen their relationship in new areas such as agreeing on cyber security practices and collaborating on AI ethics. And while it may be complicated to start a business transporting people and commodities between Buffalo and Fort Erie or promoting clean air and water between Vancouver and Seattle, there are many examples of Canadians who have been called upon to help strengthen the critical relationship between the US and Canada — the relationship that defines the future of the North.