Canada Provinces & Territories Boundaries — GeoJSON Download
Quick answer: This page hosts all 13 Canadian provinces and territories as a single 1.4 MB GeoJSON FeatureCollection you can preview on a map and download immediately, with shapeISO codes such as CA-ON for joining your own data.
About this dataset
All 13 Canadian provinces and territories as one hosted GeoJSON, simplified from Statistics Canada's boundary file so the whole country fits in about 1.4 MB.
Download Canada province and territory boundaries as GeoJSON: 10 provinces and 3 territories in a single FeatureCollection carrying shapeName, shapeISO (CA-ON, CA-QC, CA-BC), and a stable shapeID. Canada's official boundaries include an enormous number of coastal and Arctic islands — the raw simplified source file is 25 MB because Nunavut alone contributes more than 18,000 polygon parts — so this hosted layer applies a 1 km tolerance and drops islet fragments below roughly 4 km² while keeping every province, every territory, and every interior hole. The result is about 1.4 MB, small enough to open instantly in a browser tab while still showing the Arctic archipelago.
Data source: Statistics Canada (StatCan) via geoBoundaries
How to download
- 1 Preview the province layer above — the Arctic islands are visible but heavily vertex-reduced.
- 2 Download the GeoJSON and open it in QGIS, ArcGIS, or GeoDataViewer Studio.
- 3 Join your data on shapeISO (CA-ON, CA-QC, CA-BC) or shapeName.
- 4 Reach for the full-detail file when you need exact coastal length or land area.
Hosted simplified GeoJSON (1.33 MB)
13 units including the Arctic archipelago, web-ready — used by the map preview above
Full-detail GeoJSON from geoBoundaries
Every original vertex, ~41 MB — for precise coastline and area work
Statistics Canada boundary files
Official 2021 Census geographic boundary files
geoBoundaries Canada metadata
Machine-readable licence, source, and download record
FAQ
How many provinces and territories are in the file?
13 units: the 10 provinces (Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia) and the 3 territories (Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut).
Why is Nunavut's geometry so much heavier than the other units?
Nunavut spans the Canadian Arctic archipelago, which is thousands of islands. In the full-detail source it alone contributes more than 18,000 polygon parts, so it dominates both the file size and the remaining vertex count after simplification.
Does the hosted file still show the Arctic islands?
Yes. The simplification drops fragments below roughly 4 km², which removes islet specks rather than real islands, and it preserves every interior hole — for example the lakes inside Ontario and Quebec. Nunavut keeps over a thousand polygon parts.
Can I use this commercially?
Yes. Statistics Canada data is released under the Open Government Licence Canada 2.0, which permits commercial use and requires attribution to Statistics Canada.
Where are Canada's census divisions?
See the Canada census divisions dataset on this page — 76 divisions at the second administrative level, in the same GeoJSON format and field layout.