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The following is a list of rural municipality highways in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan between the numbers 600 and 699. The 600-series highways run north and south and, generally, the last two digits increase from east to west.
The borders of Saskatchewan, which make it very nearly a trapezoid, were determined in 1905 when it became a Canadian province. Saskatchewan has a total area of 651,036 square kilometres (251,366 sq mi) of which 591,670 km 2 (228,450 sq mi) is land and 59,366 km 2 (22,921 sq mi) is water. [1]
Saskatchewan's largest and smallest rural municipalities are the RM of Corman Park No. 344 and the RM of Glen McPherson No. 46 with populations of 8,568 and 72 respectively. [ 4 ] The northern half of the province does not lie within any rural municipality, but is rather administered by the provincial government through the Northern ...
Flag of Saskatchewan Regions of Saskatchewan map used on Wikivoyage.. The regional designations vary widely within the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.With a total land area of 651,036 square kilometres (251,366 sq mi), Saskatchewan is crossed by major rivers such as the Churchill and Saskatchewan and exists mostly within the Hudson Bay drainage area.
The 200 to 299 numbered highways comprise scenic provincial routes or travel to a provincial or regional park. A Saskatchewan town may be accessed via a highway numbered between 300 and 399. Some portions of the 300-series of highways in Saskatchewan (305, 312) reflect past routes of provincial highways that have been realigned or reassigned.
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] The inspiration for the Dominion Land Survey System was the plan for Manitoba (and later Saskatchewan and Alberta) to be agricultural economies.
Not all National Topographic System maps strictly follow the National Tiling System's linear grid. Some maps also, as an "overedge", cover land in an area which would otherwise be covered by an adjacent map sheet, simply because the latter area does not contain enough land in Canada to warrant a separate printing. [4] [clarification needed]
A topographic map of Saskatchewan, showing cities, towns, rural municipality borders, and natural features. Saskatchewan is the only province without a natural border. As its borders follow geographic lines of longitude and latitude, the province is roughly a quadrilateral, or a shape with four sides.