New Brunswick (French: Nouveau-Brunswick is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the only province in the federation that is constitutionally bilingual English–French. The provincial capital is Fredericton and Saint John is the most populous city.
 
The province's name comes from the English and French partial transcription of the city of Brunswick (Braunschweig in German) located in modern day Lower Saxony, northern Germany (and former duchy of the same name), the ancestral home of the Hanoverian George III of the United Kingdom.