Total Number of caches in Canada, and each province

[+doingitoldschool]

I am wanting to know the total number of caches in Canada, and in Saskatchewan as well. I can't remember how to find out these numbers, can someone provide some guidance? 

 

[+doingitoldschool]

I am wanting to know the total number of caches in Canada, and in Saskatchewan as well. I can't remember how to find out these numbers, can someone provide some guidance? 

[Keystone]

I merged together two identical threads posted to two different forum sections.

[RuideAlmeida]

2 hours ago, doingitoldschool said:

I am wanting to know the total number of caches in Canada, and in Saskatchewan as well.

 

Maybe ProjectGC...

[Keystone]

One easy way to answer questions like this is through project-gc's Caches Per Area functionality.  That page tells me there are 254,111 caches in Canada, of which 12,612 are in Saskatchewan.  (Leave the country/region field blank to see all countries, ranked by number of caches.  Canada ranks #4 in the world!

[+GeoElmo6000]

3 hours ago, Keystone said:

Canada ranks #4 in the world!

 

That surprised me, so I had to look to see which countries had the most caches.  I always thought it was the US then Germany then Canada, but it looks like France made it to the #3 spot (and the UK made #5).

[+thebruce0]

Ontario the biggest province c/o all the power trails - road/hike/paddle - and challenges...

[+Hügh]

2 hours ago, thebruce0 said:

Ontario the biggest province c/o all the power trails - road/hike/paddle - and challenges...

 

By density, though, PEI's faaaar in the lead. Roughly 2 caches per square kilometre to Ontario's 0.06 and BC's 0.05. I guess we can thank large uninhabited forests for that

[+thebruce0]

True enough!

What about the median density? haha probably no different. Ontario is just HUGE with vast forests and lakes, so even the vast swaths of compressed powertrails and series to its south are nothing by comparison.

Nunavut's probably got the least average density though...

Interesting stats!

[+technetium]

You can use the classic search for s territory: https://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?state_id=71 this shows the number of active caches in that territory (or state or whatever division the country has)

For most countries you can also get that with the whole country, unfortunately Canada is one of the countries that don't work with an url like this: https://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?country_id=5&as=1

 

Tc