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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 ...
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]
Flag of Alberta Location of Alberta. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Alberta: Alberta – province of Canada. It had a population of 3,645,257 in 2011, [1] making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces. Alberta and its neighbour, Saskatchewan, were established as provinces on September ...
Alberta's southwestern boundary is traced on the Continental Divide, along the high ranges of the Rocky Mountains, and many peaks are located on the Alberta–British Columbia border. The peak of Mount Columbia, within Jasper National Park, is the highest point in Alberta, second highest in the Canadian Rockies and 28th highest in Canada.
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The Precambrian granite and gneiss crystalline basement rocks beneath Alberta are extremely ancient, dating to the Archean and Proterozoic.The Slave Craton and Southern Alberta craton are the oldest units at more 2.5 billion years old, while younger units from the Proterozoic include the Wopmay orogeny, Great Slave Lake shear zone, Pre-Taltston basement, Taltson magmatic zone, Athabasca ...
Alberta's rivers flow towards three different bodies of water, the Arctic Ocean, the Hudson Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. Alberta is located immediately east of the continental divide , so no rivers from Alberta reach the Pacific Ocean .
Maligne Lake in Jasper National Park View on the Icefields Parkway in Banff National Park. This human region is almost identical to the Alberta Mountain forests ecozone. The region contains the Central Front Ranges and the Continental Ranges of the Canadian Rocky Mountains, and includes the Banff National Park and Jasper National Park, as well as the Kananaskis Country park system and the ...
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