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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]
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.
LSDs can be "quarter-quarter sections" (square land parcels roughly 1 ⁄ 4 mi [400 m] on a side, comprising roughly 40 acres [160,000 m 2] in area)—but this is not necessary. Many are other fractions of a section (a half-quarter section—roughly 80 acres [320,000 m 2] in area is common). LSDs may be square, rectangular, and occasionally ...
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]
The square kilometre (square kilometer in American spelling; symbol: km 2) is a multiple of the square metre, the SI unit of area or surface area. 1 km 2 is equal to: 1,000,000 square metres (m 2) 100 hectares (ha) It is also approximately equal to: 0.3861 square miles [2] 247.1 acres [3] Conversely: 1 m 2 = 0.000001 (10 −6) km 2; 1 hectare ...
In the five years between 2016 and 2021, the population of the City of Edmonton grew by 8.3%, compared with an increase of 7.3% for the Edmonton CMA and 10.8% for Alberta as a whole. The population density of the City of Edmonton averaged 1,320.4 inhabitants per square kilometre (3,420/sq mi), compared with an average of 6.7/km 2 (17/sq mi) for ...
Quebec 62 km 2 (24 sq mi), USA [7] 1,269 km 2 (490 sq mi) 41 40 Lac Bienville: 1,249 km 2 (482 sq mi) Quebec 42 41 Island Lake: 1,223 km 2 (472 sq mi) Manitoba 43 42 Lesser Slave Lake: 1,160 km 2 (450 sq mi) Alberta 44 43 Gods Lake: 1,151 km 2 (444 sq mi) Manitoba 45 not in top 50 Lake St. Clair: 1,114 km 2 (430 sq mi)