Newfoundland and Labrador
| Joined Confederation: | March 31, 1949 |
| Capital City: | St. John's |
| Flower: | Pitcher Plant |
| Tree: | Black Spruce |
| Bird: | Atlantic Puffin |
| Website: | Here |
Newfoundland and Labrador is a province of Canada, the tenth to join the Confederation. Geographically, the province consists of the island of Newfoundland and the mainland Labrador, on Canada's Atlantic coast. On entry into Canada in 1949, the entire province was known as Newfoundland, but since 1964, the province's government has referred to itself as the "Government of Newfoundland and Labrador", and on December 6, 2001, an amendment was made to the Constitution of Canada to change the province's official name to "Newfoundland and Labrador". In general day-to-day conversation, however, Canadians still refer to the province as a whole by the shorter name Newfoundland, while the Labrador region of the province is usually referred to as simply Labrador.
While the name "Newfoundland" is derived from English as "New Found Land", Labrador is named after Portuguese explorer Joao Fernandes Lavrador.
The province's population is 533 800. People from Newfoundland are called "Newfoundlanders" (and at times "Newfies", though this is often seen as a derogatory or even racist term) while people from Labrador are called "Labradorians". Newfoundland has its own dialects of the English, French, and Irish Gaelic languages.
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