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Can I Name Every Canadian Province/ Territory?
Mar 31, 2025
Can I Name Every Canadian Province/ Territory? and check out my other Youtube channels below! @JackSucksAtLife @JackSucksAtStuff @JackMasseyWelsh on JackSucksAtGeography we upload a range of easy to watch geography related games. We mainly play Sporcle games like "naming all 197 countries". I successfully learned all 197 countries and plan to learn more Geography trivia. On this channel I also play Geoguessr. This is a game that uses Google Street View to drop you in a random location and you have to work out exactly where you are on the worldwide map. Geoguessr was created in 2013. If you want to see more from Jack he uploads different content to many other Youtube channels, linked above! video edited by: https://twitter.com/kairossbest instagram: https://instagram.com/jackmasseywelsh my subreddit: https://reddit.com/r/jacksucksatlife/ twitter: https://twitter.com/jackmasseywelsh business email: jack @ skycade . net
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Today I'm going to try and learn all 13 Canadian provinces
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So this is the Sparkle game I'll be completing. By the end of this video, I hope to not only know the name of every province
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but also exactly where each one is. And the way I'm going to do it is just by doing the quiz over and over again
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until it sticks in my head. So let's just see how many I can name off the bat. So I think there's an Alberta
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Let's see. Yes, there is. An Alberta is here, so I need a mnemonic to remember the area
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It is right near the alphabet, but this is A, B, Alberta
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So it's second along. Sure. Next up, I think, isn't there a British Columbia
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British Columbia. Let's see. No. Okay, I'll query that. I think Nova Scotia
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That's one. Nova Scotia. How do I spell it? There we go. So Nova Scotia is the teeny tiny one
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This ship kind of looks like the start of an N. So if you imagine another line here, that's a weird N
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That's how I'll remember that one down there. Do I know any others? Ontario
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Is that one? Ontario. Ontario. I'm spelling it wrong. Ontario. Ontario. There we go
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Okay, ontario is pointing at rio. This is the the finger pointing towards rio down there
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So that's how I remember that's ontario. I don't think I can name any others So I know three out of 13. I was sure there was a british columbia. I'm confused about that
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Newfoundland that's one right, but i'm not sure i'm pronouncing it right new Foundland let's see. Yes, it's newfoundland and labrador, but I think it's pronounced new finland, right
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So what I also want to do is just make sure that I am pronouncing everything. So let's just hear it new finland
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Newfoundland. Yeah, Newfoundland. Newfoundland. Not quite Newfoundland, but it's like New Finland
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Okay. Right, that's 4 of 13. Can I do any others? I don't think so, so let's give up and see what we
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are missing. Right. British Columbia. Oh, it's spelled differently to Columbia the country. Right
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that's how I was spelling it, but it's spelled with a U. Okay. Right, what else did I not know
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Quebec. That's an easy one to get. Prince Edward Island is this little fella here. So to remember
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that one, I'm going to think that this is little baby Edward and he's being cradled in a cot made
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of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. And it's an island, so I'll remember the word island. Now
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New Brunswick, oh, the cot can be made of wicker. It's a wicker basket. It's perfect. New Brunswick
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And it's brand new because baby Edward's only a baby. If you don't know what I'm doing right now
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and you're just really confused, I'm creating mnemonics in my brain and it's a way of remembering
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stuff. So you come up with like a weird rhyme or a weird bit of trivia that doesn't even need to be
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true, but it just helps jumpstart your brain. It's how I remembered all 197 flags of the world
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All right, how do I remember Quebec? I honestly feel like I might just remember Quebec because
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now I see it as a word. It's something I'm quite familiar with. British Columbia. Hmm
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how do we remember that? I can't think of anything. I feel like that one might just stick as well because I knew it already. I just need to remember the spelling and I need to
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remember that it's over here next to Alberta. Sure, yeah. Well, there was a guy called Albert
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in the British sitcom Only Fools and Horses. And he was British
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So that's how I'll remember that British Columbia and Alberta are next to each other
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And then Yukon, I'm gonna say, you cannot be serious. What's Yukon doing up here
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And it's so cool and right angular. And then the others, I'm gonna come back to
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because if I try and learn all of them at the same time, it's not gonna work. So let's replay and see how we get on
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I am excited for this Right to begin with Quebec Wait and I should say where it is before I do it Let do Prince Edward Island So that the little teeny weeny fella Little baby Edward Prince Edward Island There you go Also it worth noting that if any of my mnemonics are
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offensive, it's accidental. I don't know which Prince Edward Island is named after
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but me calling him a little baby in a wicker basket is irrelevant to the actual cultural
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impact of the island itself. Let's do New Brunswick. That was one, New Brunswick. I don't
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think this is going to take me too long um hmm hang on what was the other one oh it begins with an n
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right no it's nova scotia it's just nova scotia nova scotia there you go see i couldn't think of
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it but then when i thought about my mnemonic that i made up that doesn't really make that much sense
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because it doesn't actually look like an n it didn't matter it still worked it still helped me
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jog my memory right we learned this one as well didn't we we'll come back to it let's do british
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columbia british columbia like that and then alberta is next to it uh you can was that what
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it was just called you can right you can you con you cannot be serious this is very right
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that's such a weird mnemonic okay i've got seven already what else can we do we could do ontario
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which is the big one at the bottom right ontario yeah there you go because it's pointing at rio
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Oh, yes, of course. Did I learn any others? We've got eight of 13. It's not many
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I know this one, don't I? I just can't think what it is. Did I come up with a mnemonic for it
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Nothing's ringing my bell. Yeah, let's give up there and let's see what we were missing. Ah, it's New Finland
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Okay, yeah, and they're connected. So I don't know if this is maybe Labrador. No, it's actually the other way around
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The big one is Labrador, which actually probably makes it easier for me to remember
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because Labrador is quite a big dog. So I can kind of split these two up into two areas
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And New Finland is the one that's closest to Finland out of all of the territories
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Nice. This is going well. Right, so there's another one called Northwest Territory. So I don't know if that's a province or just a territory
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I assume it's the latter. But we can remember it just by the fact that it is literally in the northwest
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I think that's probably enough and it's not Yukon. Nunavut. I should work out how to pronounce that because I want to make sure as I learn them
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I'm pronounced them correctly from the beginning. It looks like it's just how you say it
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Nunavut. Nunavut, yeah. Nunavut. Nunavut. Yeah, that's fine. I don't really need to remember that because it's kind of just what it looks like
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So Nunavut sounds like an Inuit word, right? Yeah, it is. It translates as our land. I wanted to make sure I got that right
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Nunavut, our land. Nunavut does sound like Inuit. It's up in the area that I would think there's going to be a lot of Inuit history
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So, yeah, I can remember that, right? And just to be sure, let's think of all of these little islands as little nuns running about
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I don't know what they're up to. I don't know why they're running, but that's how we'll remember that one. Okay, I have not learned Saskatchewan
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I need to check the pronunciation on that one. Saskatchewan. Saskatchewan. Saskatchewan
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Saskatchewan. Saskatchewan. Saskatchewan. Let's get some pictures of Saskatchewan because I can't think of a way to
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pronounce it. Okay, looks like it's quite a rural area with maybe one major city
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Saskatchewan. All right, this kind of works. B-A-S. Bass. They're at the base of Canada. That's
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probably good enough. And then finally, Manitoba. I do love a lot of these words, by the way. They
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sound cool. Manitoba. Hmm, how do I remember Manitoba? It's a shame it doesn't begin with E and
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and just fix my base thing that I've just come up with, but whatever Ooh I know let go with man I wish that this helped my other pneumonic and started with an E Right so we got Nunavut Northwest Territories
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Yukon, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, New Finland, and Labrador
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Cool, I don't think this is gonna take long at all. All right, so to make sure I've got them locked in
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I'm gonna point at them and we're gonna work our way along. So this one, that is British Columbia
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There you go. Very nice. And next to it is, of course, Alberta. And after that, we have..
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Ooh, it begins with S. Saskatchewan. Hmm. I have to actually be able to spell it
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Now, I'm not going to lie. It may be open in another tab and visible to me right now
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But I think I need that help right now. Saskatchewan. This is the only one with a difficult spelling that I kind of need to separately learn
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Saskatchewan. Saskatchewan. Hmm. That might take me a little bit of time
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Next up is Manitoba. Ha ha ha ha, incredible. And then this one is, it ends with the word Rio or Ontario, Ontario
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See, that's interesting because I knew the word Ontario already, but I actually forgot that because I could only remember the mnemonic that I've just come up with
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Okay, this big one is, ooh, it's obvious, isn't it? It's weird
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It's like I've squeezed it out of my brain. I'm pretty sure I said in this video that I'll just be able to remember this one
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and I don't need to come up with anything for it. Right, we'll come back to it. Let's do Newfoundland
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There we go. We don't have to type the Labrador bit. And we can do Nova Scotia
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There you go. Excellent. We'll do Prince Edward Island. Beautiful. And then made of the wicker, New Brunswick
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Beautiful. How do I not have this one? That's so stupid. So if we go back to the left, we have got Yukon
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Yukon. Yukon. There you go. I'm still working out the spelling. Don't worry
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By the end of this video, I'm going to be able to do it flawlessly without having to kind of think too hard
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And then from Yukon, what's that one? It's location-based. It's Northwest Territories
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Territories. There you go. Look at that. And then this is... It's the one that means our land
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I can't remember. No, nuns. Something about nuns. No, no, no, no, okay. Oh, quebec. That's the other one that I didn't get quebec
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It's the one that I should just know So the only one that i've not gone is the one that begins with nun and i've forgotten it
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I'm gonna have to give up this time none of what all right The nuns are now running around looking to find out where they parked the van
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That's how i'm gonna remember that none of us none of van none and van. Yeah
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Should we give it another go? I need to get it flawlessly right and this time we'll go from right to left as well
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So over there we have Newfoundland, Newfoundland, Newfoundland. There you go, Newfoundland and Labrador
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We'll not do Prince Edward just yet. We'll do this one, which is Nova Scotia
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Nova Scotia. There we go. Need to remember how to spell that, Nova Scotia
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Now we'll do Prince Edward Island. That's definitely the one that I've got locked in the best
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And I think it got the most lore behind it in my brain now Then we have New Brunswick which is great to do straight after Edward Quebec is the big fella that we forgot I remember Quebec over here because Q later in the alphabet
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Q's a higher number in the alphabet as well, so it's quite big. Sure. Okay, this one is Ontario, pointing at Rio
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Then over here, we have Manitoba. Yep, beautiful. This one is... Begins with S
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Oh, it's the SAS one. I'm closing my tab. I promise I'm not looking at the spelling
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I've got my hand covering it. Sask- Ha-ha-ka-ka-ka-ka-cha-choo-an? Oh, I got it
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Sask- Saskatchewan. Saskatchewan. S-A-S is kind of like S-O-S. I'm panicking because I can't remember to spell it
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So hopefully S-O-S will get me the rest of it. Next we have Alberta
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Excellent. Then we have British Columbia. And over here we have Yukon, spelled correctly for the first time
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And Northwest Territories. And then finally, we have Nunavut. Vutt, Nunavut
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There we go. Okay, that's the first time we've completed it, but it wasn't smooth
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It wasn't flawless, was it? Right, mixing it up a bit. I'm going to try and click them where they're shown
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So Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Shure, Manitoba. Oh, it's tricky without the outlines, but I think I can do it
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Yeah, Newfoundland. Very nice. New Finland, sorry. Ontario, British Columbia. Beautiful. Saskatchewan
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Next. Quebec, Alberta, Nova Scotia, Yukon, Nunavut, Northwest Territories. All right, keep the momentum going
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Canada, East to West. Starting with Nova Scotia, can you put the list of Canadian provinces in order from East
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to West? Yes, I can. Hopefully. Okay, so starting with Nova Scotia
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Next to that is... Ah, New Brunswick, I guess. and then Quebec, followed by Ontario, followed by Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia
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Submit guess. Okay, it feels kind of locked in, I'm not gonna lie, and it only took about 20 minutes
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which is not too bad, actually, is it? So let's see how smoothly we can just name these, so I'm
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gonna do the difficult one to begin with. Saskatchewan, yeah, brilliant, Saskatchewan
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British Columbia, Alberta, Quebec, Ontario, Nunavut. Yes, spelled right as well
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Yukon. I need to make sure the spelling is correct first time or I don't feel like it counts
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Newfoundland, New Finland. It's going to take a while to pronounce that differently to how I spell it because that's
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what really helps me. Then we've also got Nova Scotia. Yep, great
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Prince Edward Island. Beautiful. New Brunswick, Manitoba, and finally, we of course have the Northwest Territories
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Just like that. We now know all 13 Canadian provinces. I know it wasn't a super challenging
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thing to learn, but it's been a while since I've actively tried to learn something new on this channel and I want to keep going, but something like learning all capital cities, there's just
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too many. It's too overwhelming. So if you've got any other suggestions for things at a similar
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level to this, maybe a little bit harder, let me know in the comments. Thank you very much for
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watching. Feel free to try and learn them yourselves, and I will see you later
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