From Fodor's Guide to Canada...

In the Gulf of St. Lawrence, north of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island seems too good to be true, with its crisply painted farmhouses, manicured fields rolling down to sandy beaches, the warmest water north of the Carolinas, and a vest pocket capital city, Charlottetown, packed with architectural heritage.”

PEI , one of Canada’s 4 Atlantic Provinces, has a total area of 2,184 sq miles, making it more than 50% larger than NY’s Long Island, and is about 140 miles long and averages about 15 miles wide (it ranges between 4 and 40 miles wide).