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Prince Edward Island is by a strong margin the most Celtic and specifically the most Scottish province in Canada and perhaps the most Scottish place (ethnically) in the world, outside Scotland. 38% of islanders claim Scottish ancestry, but this is an underestimate and it is thought that almost 50% of islanders have Scottish roots.
A population centre, in Canadian census data, 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 persons per square km 2. [1]
Prince Edward Island [a] is an island province of Canada. While it is the smallest province in terms of land area and population, it is the most densely populated. The island has several nicknames: "Garden of the Gulf", "Birthplace of Confederation" and "Cradle of Confederation". [8]
Prince Edward Island is the least populous province in Canada with 154,331 residents as of the 2021 census and is the smallest in land area at 5,681.18 km 2 (2,193.52 sq mi). [1] Prince Edward Island's 63 municipalities cover 34.7% of the province's land mass and were home to 73% of its population in 2021.
As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Prince County had a population of 46,234 living in 19,660 of its 22,776 total private dwellings, a change of 5.3% from its 2016 population of 43,910. With a land area of 2,006.27 km 2 (774.63 sq mi), it had a population density of 23.0/km 2 (59.7/sq mi) in ...
Stratford, a suburb of Charlottetown located south-east across the Hillsborough River, is the third-largest community in Prince Edward Island. Queens County is the only county in Prince Edward Island to have experienced population growth since 2011, with a change of +5.3% from 77,866 recorded in the Canada 2011 Census .
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Cornwall had a population of 6,574 living in 2,642 of its 2,770 total private dwellings, a change of 22.9% from its 2016 population of 5,348. With a land area of 28.21 km 2 (10.89 sq mi), it had a population density of 233.0/km 2 (603.6/sq mi) in 2021. [13]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Malpeque Bay had a population of 1,191 living in 520 of its 991 total private dwellings, a change of 15.6% from its 2016 population of 1,030. With a land area of 98.97 km 2 (38.21 sq mi), it had a population density of 12.0/km 2 (31.2/sq mi) in 2021. [10]