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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.
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]
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 ...
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. The largest lake completely within Alberta is Lake Claire, at 1,436 km 2 (554 sq mi).
Jasper National Park, in Alberta, Canada, is the largest national park within Alberta's Rocky Mountains, spanning 11,000 km 2 (4,200 sq mi). It was established as Jasper Forest Park in 1907, renamed as a national park in 1930, and declared a UNESCO world heritage site in 1984.
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)