What do Canadians call their equivalent of "the outback"?

Yes it's .......The "United States of America"......(*lol*) sorry ,couldn't resist fellow Canadians (Michael C...)

Probably in reference to the far north simply "the tundra"-which is land with few or no trees-mostly wide-open rocky terrain.The northern- most parts of the Territories,Quebec and Labrador fall into this definition.The Inuit(Eskimo) inhabitants say they are"going out on the land" when they leave their communities to hunt.

In more southerly parts there are various colloquialisms that very by region-where I live (in New Brunswick) going to the more remote areas is actually referred to by some as "going outback"-or to the "woods" or (out to the)"back country"..hence the term "outback" here.Some other people in other places use the term "going to the bush" or even "boonies".

I don't think we really have an equivalent term to "outback". "The North" is used to collectively refer to northern Quebec, northern Ontario, northern Manitoba, northern Saskatchewan and Alberta or we might refer to "the Territories" by which we mean Yukon, Nunavut and the Northwest Territories and it could be all three or any combination of them when we refer to the territories. I live in Northwestern Ontario and you might refer to going to the "bush" or living in the "bush" but that generally means going camping or having a home/cabin in any isolated area but it excludes all towns and settlements so it's not really the same use as "Outback".

Does that help at all?

I'd call it the bush. We spent the summer in the bush. He's living out in the bush somewhere. If you go into the bush, be sure you take a compass. People also use "the toolies" sometimes, to indicate that something is away from civilization. We were way out in the toolies when the tire went flat. More officially, remote areas would probably be called wilderness areas.

Up North.

The bush

the North

up North

Nothing as poetic as "the outback" Pity.

Up North.

Our equivalent is called The Badlands.

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Yes exactly you summed it up. Wow. Canada and Australia are probably the two countries in the world that have so much to compare that they should just combine into 1.

Wilderness, or the bush. I live in the Yukon, and usually call it the bush. People can be "bushed" living out there too long (cabin fever).

We don't really have a nice equivalent.

Take your pick:

The north

Up north

The arctic

Way up there

Northern Canada

etc.

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I've never, ever heard the word "toolies" before...that one must be regional.