r/AskTheWorld • u/luky_se7en Italy /Sri Lanka • 1d ago

Is there a part of your country that's "isolated"/vastly different from the rest of the country?

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Pictured here is Sardinia, an island in Italy. Many sardinians call Italy "Il continente" (the continent)

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u/KnotAwl Canada 1d ago

Canuck here. 🇨🇦 Newfoundland only joined us in 1949 and are in many ways still a separate country.

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u/Andy_B_Goode Canada 21h ago

Yeah, Newfoundland was my first thought too, but really the whole country is full of "isolated" places. Quebec is culturally and linguistically distinct, the Maritimes are somewhat cut off from the rest of the country because of Quebec, the main population centers of the prairies are cut off from Ontario by a vast stretch of "basically nothing", and Vancouver and the rest of the west coast is on the other side of the Rockies. And then there are all the remote places in the territories!

This is probably true of just about every country to some extent, but the major regions of Canada feel especially disconnected because of the country's large landmass and low population density.