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From where does the name "Canada" come from?

AFrom the Inuit word meaning country.
BFrom the French word meaning joining.
CFrom the Métis word meaning rivers.
✓From "Kanata", the Huron-Iroquois word for village.

Why This Is the Correct Answer

The name "Canada" comes from "Kanata," a Huron-Iroquois word meaning "village." When explorer Jacques Cartier arrived in 1535, Indigenous people used this word to describe the area, and the name stuck.

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