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Rural areas cover approximately 9,197,138 km 2 (3,551,035 sq mi) of Canada's land area as of 2015. [2] Rural Canada is usually defined by low population density, small population size, and distance from major agglomerations. As of the 2021 census, nearly 6 million people (16% of the total Canadian population) lived in rural areas of Canada. [3 ...
In Canada, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development defines a "predominantly rural region" as having more than 50% of the population living in rural communities where a "rural community" has a population density less than 150 people per square kilometre. In Canada, the census division has been used to represent "regions" and ...
A rural municipality, often abbreviated RM, is a type of municipal status in the Canadian provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, [1] and Prince Edward Island. [2] In other provinces, such as Alberta and Nova Scotia , the term refers to municipal districts that are not explicitly urban, rather than being a distinct type of municipality.
A village is a type of incorporated municipality within the majority of the provinces and territories of Canada. As of January 1, 2012, there were 550 villages among the provinces of Alberta , British Columbia , Manitoba , New Brunswick , the Northwest Territories , Ontario , Quebec , Saskatchewan and Yukon .
This is a list of the census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada by population, using data from the 2021 Canadian census and the 2016 Canadian census. [1] Each entry is identified as a census metropolitan area (CMA) or a census agglomeration (CA) as defined by Statistics Canada.
Canada population density map (2014). A population centre, in the context of a Canadian census, is a populated place, or a cluster of interrelated populated places, which meets the demographic characteristics of an urban area, having a population of at least 1,000 people and a population density of no fewer than 400 people per square km 2.
The province of Alberta, Canada, is divided into ten types of local governments – urban municipalities (including cities, towns, villages and summer villages), specialized municipalities, rural municipalities (including municipal districts (often named as counties), improvement districts, and special areas), Métis settlements, and Indian ...
Communities in Canada's provinces and territories This is a list of communities in New Brunswick , a province in Canada . For the purposes of this list, a community is defined as either an incorporated municipality, an Indian reserve , or an unincorporated community inside or outside a municipality.