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New Brunswick (French: Nouveau-Brunswick; NB) is one of the Atlantic Provinces of Canada, and the country's only bilingual province with both English and French as official languages. While the province covers a land area the size of Ireland, there are only 780,000 inhabitants (2020), most of them along the coasts and in the Saint John River Valley. The inland consists of sparsely populated forest.
Acadian culture in the northeast of the province.
Small towns and cities on the Saint John River. The region includes the capital of the province, Fredericton.
The coastal region along the Bay of Fundy, home to some of the highest tides in the world. Saint John is the largest city in the province while St. Andrews is one of the premier resort destinations.
The forested and hilly central part of the province.
A mixed French and English area with beaches along the Atlantic Coast and one of the province's largest cities, Moncton.
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By train
Operates The Ocean, which travels between Halifax and Montreal via Moncton. There are three trains per direction per week.
Travel by car is the easiest way to see New Brunswick. The Trans-Canada Highway and four-lane highways cross much of the southern stretch of the province.
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capital city and the cultural, artistic and educational centre of the province
a mining, fishing and forestry centre with access to some beautiful wilderness areas
connected by bridge to Quebec, it has a strong Acadian heritage
95% francophone, and centre of the Brayon culture, which many consider to be neither Acadian nor Québécois, and home of the New Brunswick Botanical Garden
"Canada's Irish Capital", and is home to an annual Irish festival
largest city in the province, and home to the Magnetic Hill Optical Illusion
a seaside resort town with a proud United Empire Loyalist heritage
the province's second-largest city, and Canada's oldest incorporated city
calls itself the "lobster capital of the world"; the approach to the town is guarded by an 11-metre-long, 5-metre-tall, 90-tonne statue of a lobster
a popular summer colony for wealthy Canadians and Americans, including Franklin D. Roosevelt.
the park's rugged coastline experiences the highest tides in the world; more than 25 waterfalls.
a beautiful island, made up of several small fishing communities.
barrier islands, sand dunes, lagoons, salt marshes and forests.
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