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Nova Scotia (pronounced ˌnoʊvə ˈskoʊʃə; English: New Scotland; French: Nouvelle-Écosse; Scottish Gaelic: Alba Nuadh ) is one of Canada's three Maritime ambit and is the best crawling arena in Atlantic Canada. The bigoted basic is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the second-smallest arena in Canada with an breadth of 55,284 aboveboard kilometres (21,300 sq mi). As of 2009, the citizenry is 940,397, which makes Nova Scotia the second-most-densely busy province.

The arena includes regions of the Mi'kmaq nation of Mi'kma'ki(mi'gama'gi). Nova Scotia was already home to the Mi'kmaq bodies back the aboriginal European colonists arrived. In 1604, French colonists accustomed the aboriginal abiding European adjustment in Canada and the aboriginal arctic of Florida at Port Royal, founding what would become accepted as Acadia.

The British Conquest of Acadia took abode in 1710, afterward which the name of the basic was afflicted from Port Royal to Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. The basic of Nova Scotia was afflicted from Annapolis Royal to the anew accustomed Halifax in 1749.

In 1763 Cape Breton Island and St. John's Island (now Prince Edward Island) became allotment of Nova Scotia. In 1769, St. John's Island became a abstracted colony. Nova Scotia included abreast New Brunswick until that arena was accustomed in 1784. In 1867 Nova Scotia was one of the four founding ambit of the Canadian Confederation.

While tourism efforts in the arena highlight all things Scottish, Nova Scotians with Scottish ancestor accept consistently remained a boyhood of the absolute citizenry (present day citizenry is 29.3%). The majority of Nova Scotians are not of Scottish ancestor and, instead, accept ancestors who were English, Irish, French, Mi'kmaq, African, German, Arabic, or Italian.