Ottawa in five emoji

What each emoji refers to

🏛️

The Parliament buildings burned down in 1916 and were rebuilt, with the Peace Tower added afterwards.

🍁

The maple leaf only became the flag in 1965, after a long and bad-tempered parliamentary debate.

🎨

Louise Bourgeois's giant bronze spider stands outside the National Gallery, holding a sac of marble eggs.

🚴

Long stretches of parkway close to cars on summer Sunday mornings and fill with bikes instead.

❄️

The Rideau Canal freezes into a skateway most winters, and people commute to work along it.

Ottawa at a glance

Country

Canada

Coordinates

45.42° N, 75.70° W

First played

27 May 2026

Nearest cities in the game

Distances are great-circle, the same measure the game reports after a wrong guess. The arrow is the direction you would need to travel from Ottawa.