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Atlantic Canada, also known as the '''Atlantic provinces''', is the name given to the four Canadian Provinces located on Canada 's Atlantic coast. The provinces are: The latter three are also called the Maritime provinces, or Maritimes for short. The population of the Atlantic provinces was 2.3 million in 2004. HISTORY OF THE TERM The first Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador , Joey Smallwood , coined the term Atlantic Canada when Newfoundland joined Canada in 1949 . He believed it would be presumptuous for Newfoundland to assume that it could include itself within the existing term "Maritime provinces", used to describe the cultural similarities between Nova Scotia , Prince Edward Island , and New Brunswick . Occasionally the Maritimes is used as a synonym for the ''Atlantic provinces'', but this usage is considered incorrect. CITIES (by population/metro area) SEE ALSO
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