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The remaining highways lack this designation and are not considered part of the TCH, however various other, or portions of, highways within the network are considered to be part of the National Highway System (NHS). Some of the highways in Alberta's highway network that are part of the NHS are highways 9, 28, 35, and 63. In total, sixteen ...
Alberta's 1 to 216 series of provincial highways are Alberta's main highways. They are numbered from 1 to 100, with the exception of the ring roads around Calgary and Edmonton, which are numbered 201 and 216 respectively. The numbers applied to these highways are derived from compounding the assigned numbers of the core north–south and east ...
Numbered highways in Canada. Numbered highways in Canada are split by province, and a majority are maintained by their province or territory transportation department. With few exceptions, all highways in Canada are numbered. Nonetheless, every province has a number of highways that are better known locally by their name rather than their number.
Highway 1 is a major east–west highway in southern Alberta that forms the southern mainline of the Trans-Canada Highway. It runs from the British Columbia border near Lake Louise through Calgary to the Saskatchewan border east of Medicine Hat. It continues as Highway 1 into both provinces. It spans approximately 534 km (332 mi) from Alberta ...
A municipal district (MD) is the most common form of all rural municipality statuses used in the Canadian province of Alberta.Alberta's municipal districts, most of which are branded as a county (e.g. Yellowhead County, County of Newell, etc.), are predominantly rural areas that may include either farmland, Crown land or a combination of both depending on their geographic location.
Alberta has 105 towns that had a cumulative population of 455,053 and an average population of 4,293 in the 2016 Canadian Census. [2] Alberta's largest and smallest towns are Okotoks and Stavely with populations of 28,881 and 541 respectively. [2]
Alberta provincial highways, 1–216 series (113 P) Alberta provincial highways, 500–986 series (3 C) F. Former Alberta provincial highways (38 P)
Combined, Alberta has 73 rural municipalities comprising 63 municipal districts, 7 improvement districts and 3 special areas. [2] The 73 rural municipalities have a total population of 481,120, a total land area of 468,246.83 km 2 (180,791.11 sq mi). [3][f] These totals represent 11% of Alberta's population yet 73.8% of its land area.