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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 ...
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.
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]
The province's largest and smallest summer villages by land area are Silver Sands and Castle Island with 2.51 km 2 (0.97 sq mi) and 0.05 km 2 (0.019 sq mi) respectively. [3] Gull Lake and Kapasiwin were the last communities in Alberta to incorporate as summer villages. Both were incorporated on September 1, 1993. [21]
Lake Athabasca is the largest lake in both Alberta and Saskatchewan.This 7,850 km 2 (3,030 sq mi) lake has 2,295 km 2 (886 sq mi) of its surface area in Alberta and 5,555 km 2 (2,145 sq mi) in Saskatchewan.
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.
With a land area of 5,107.55 km 2 (1,972.04 sq mi), it had a population density of 237.9 people per square kilometre in 2011. [8] Also in terms of area, the Calgary CMA makes up approximately 40% of Statistics Canada's Division No. 6 in Alberta.
It had a population of 1,392,609 in the 2016 Census compared to its 2011 population of 1,214,839. Its five-year population change of 14.6 percent was the highest among all CMAs in Canada between 2011 and 2016. With a land area of 5,107.55 km 2 (1,972.04 sq mi), the Calgary CMA had a population density of 272.7/km 2 (706.2/sq mi) in 2016. [188]