Place: CanadaThe world’s second-largest country – and 2010 Winter Games host – is a nation of contrasts: Most of its sparsely populated North is a frozen wilderness, lit briefly by the “midnight sun” in summer and the Northern Lights in winter; its West boasts one of the world’s largest temperate
rainforests and the majestic Rockies; central Canada, home to most of its people and its largest cities, offers keys to the nation’s British and French past, and the historic, picturesque East has some of its most rugged seafaring towns.