What is the population Nova Scotia?
Over 950,000 people now call Nova Scotia home. Mostly, we spread ourselves out pretty well although, historically, most settlement occurred along the extensive coastline of the province. As a result, great expanses of the forested interior remain sparsely populated except for summer cottages on some of our numerous fresh water lakes. When you calculate the average number of people in Nova Scotia per square kilometre, the number turns out to be only 17.7 (or 10.6 per square mile, if you prefer). That compares with an average of almost 3,000 people per square kilometre (or 1,800 per square mile) in New York City. (That’s high population density!) In much of Nova Scotia, if you sat perfectly still somewhere all day long, you might never see a soul. Nova Scotia has been greeting newcomers since the early 1600s when explorers from the Old World took home tales of the abundant cod fishery. First came the French, closely followed by the British – there are magnificent monuments to their warri
