A traveling salesman tour of Canada

Here is a Traveling Salesman tour of Canada's provinces and territories created by Mathematica. This is the shortest path connecting the geographic centers of the regions.

Here is a much larger (4.5 MB) PDF file of the same map with higher resolution.

Starting in the northwest, the tour is

1. Yukon
2. Northwest Territories
3. Nunavut
4. Quebec
5. Newfoundland and Labrador
6. Prince Edward Island
7. Nova Scotia
8. New Brunswick
9. Ontario
10. Manitoba
11. Saskatchewan
12. Alberta
13. British Columbia

The tour is 11,070 km.

For more tours like this, see my earlier posts on tours of

• Africa
• The Americas
• Eurasia and Oceania

Update: Here is an adjacency network for Canadian provinces and territories.

This is an SVG image so you can scale it to make it easier to read if you'd like.

More adjacency graph posts:

• US states and Texas counties
• Japanese prefectures
• Brazilian states

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