Chicago
Chicago’s 2.7 million residents make it the number three city in population in the United States and the biggest city in the Midwest. Its metro zone, “Chicago-land,” is 9.5 million strong. It stretches from Lake Michigan more than 50 miles inland and nearly touches Wisconsin on its northern extremities and Indiana on its southern limits. […]
Miami
Miami lies on the southeast extremity of Florida and of the whole United States near the crucial straits between Cuba and the Florida Peninsula. With the opening of the Panama Canal, Miami’s position became even more strategic, and it has grown to over 400,000 in population (but 5.5 million in the metro area). It is […]
New York
New York City has within its 300 square miles more than 8.4 million residents and is the biggest and most densely populated city in the United States. From its founding by the Dutch as New Amsterdam in 1626, it has been an ever-growing center of commerce, banking, education, art, and entertainment, leading some to dub […]
Boston
More than $27 billion in goods were exported from the United States by way of Massachusetts in 2011. With top exports of optics related materials, surgical instruments, machinery, computers and pharmaceuticals coming out of Boston, misunderstanding the intricacies of shipping laws and customs requirements can cause devastating delays. No company can risk losing orders or […]
United States
Shipping in and out of the United States presents an obvious problem; the oceans to the east and west. The Atlantic and the Pacific present miles and miles of watery barrier. That’s not to mention that the country itself is huge. Just getting your product from one side of it to the other can be […]
Calgary
Calgary, Alberta is Canada’s third-largest city at 1.1 million and is at the southern end of the populous and rapidly growing Calgary-Edmonton Corridor. The city sits on the juncture of the Bow and Elbow Rivers in southern Alberta and in the midst of prairies and hills only 80 km (50 mi) to the east of […]
Halifax
Halifax is the capital of the Canadian province of Novia Scotia and a major Atlantic port city of 390,000 (in 2011). It has steadily grown into a center of commerce since its founding in 1749 by Edward Cornwallis. This was not the Cornwallis that George Washington defeated, but a military hero of multiple European wars […]
Vancouver
Over the past three decades, Vancouver has been transformed from a strong trading city to one of the pre-eminent ports on the Pacific. A lot of the impetus behind the upgrade has come through expanded trade with Asia and the South Pacific. For firms that plan to do business in Canada or the Pacific Northwest […]
Edmonton
Edmonton, the capital of Alberta, lies in the central part of the province and at the northern edge of its more populated regions. In 2011, the city proper had a population of 812,000 and a metropolitan area registered 1.2 million. Edmonton is the most northerly city in the Americas with a million or more inhabitants […]
Ontario
Ontario is the most populous province of Canada (12,850,000 in 2011) and is home to four out of every ten Canadians. Its biggest cities are Toronto (5.6 million), Ottawa (1.2 million), and Hamilton (720,000). Ottawa is also the capital of Canada, but for many purposes it is often included with Ontario out of whose land […]
Canada
Canada is the second-largest nation in the world as to surface area, but has a relatively small populations of only 35.7 million (2014 estimate). Its ten provinces and three territories constitute a well-developed economic system and a stable political system that have helped Canada become one of the wealthiest nations on earth (9th highest per […]
North America
The continent of North America lies fully to the north of the equator and is surrounded by water on all sides except for the narrow connection with South America through the Isthmus of Panama. The offshore Canadian Arctic islands, Greenland, and the Caribbean islands are also usually grouped with North America. North America is the […]
