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Originally Posted by jtown,man
Wow. That's really insane.
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Yeah. It's also quite big in an east-west fashion as well.
When people from other countries are surprised that about 60% of French-speaking Canadians speak only French (given where they live), I always explain that the area of Canada where you can easily get by for pretty much anything by speaking French only takes two long full days to drive across - basically all of Quebec plus some neighbouring areas of Ontario and a good chunk of New Brunswick too.
That's equivalent to driving from Brest on the Atlantic coast of France across multiple European countries, to Brest in Belarus (which borders Russia).
There are just under 10 million people in this area, which is very vast geographically.