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Alberta is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. [2] Located in Western Canada, the province has an area of 661,190 km 2 (255,290 sq mi) and is bounded to the south by the United States state of Montana along 49° north for 298 km (185 mi); to the east at 110° west by the province of Saskatchewan for 1,223 km (760 mi); and at 60° north the Northwest Territories for 644 km ...
Alberta is the fourth-largest province by area at 661,848 square kilometres (255,541 square miles), [10] and the fourth-most populous, being home to 4,262,635 people. [2] Alberta's capital is Edmonton, while Calgary is its largest city. [11] The two are Alberta's largest census metropolitan areas. [12]
With a land area of 9,426.73 km 2 (3,639.68 sq mi), the Edmonton CMA had a population density of 123.0/km 2 (318.7/sq mi) in 2011. [114] Statistics Canada's latest estimate of the Edmonton CMA population, as of July 1, 2016, is 1,363,300 [174] The Edmonton population centre is the core [175] of the Edmonton CMA.
Canada had 1,137 municipalities that held city, town or ville [a] status as of 2011. [1] This list presents the 100 largest of these municipalities by land area in square kilometres at the time of the 2011 census.
Covering about 800,000 square kilometres (310,000 sq mi), the survey system and its terminology are deeply ingrained in the rural culture of the Prairies. The DLS is the world's largest survey grid laid down in a single integrated system. The first formal survey done in western Canada was by Peter Fidler in 1813. [2]
Provincial lands account for 60% of the area of the province of Alberta, [3] 94% of the land in British Columbia, [4] 95% of Newfoundland and Labrador, [1] and 48% of New Brunswick. [5] The largest single landowner in Canada by far, and by extension one of the world's largest, is the Government of Canada.
The square kilometre (square kilometer in American spelling; symbol: km 2) is a multiple of the square metre, the SI unit of area or surface area. 1 km 2 is equal to: 1,000,000 square metres (m 2) 100 hectares (ha) It is also approximately equal to: 0.3861 square miles [2] 247.1 acres [3] Conversely: 1 m 2 = 0.000001 (10 −6) km 2; 1 hectare ...
With a land area of 1.49 km 2 (0.58 sq mi), it had a population density of 67.8/km 2 (175.6/sq mi) in 2021. [1] As a designated place in the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Osborne Acres had a population of 116 living in 37 of its 41 total private dwellings, a change of 11.5% from its