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The rural municipality's population in the 2016 Canadian Census was 6,181, making it the 12th largest rural municipality by population. The RM of Gimli has an area of 318.75 km 2 (123.07 sq mi), making it the sixth smallest rural municipality by area.
Gimli was incorporated as a village on March 6, 1908, and held town status between December 31, 1946, and January 1, 2003, when it amalgamated with the RM of Gimli. [3] Census Canada now recognizes the community as a population centre for census purposes. The 2021 Canadian census recorded a population of 2,345 in the population centre of Gimli. [1]
These communities include cities, towns, villages, reserves inhabited by First Nations, a local government district that is urban in nature, designated places, and population centres. A population centre, according to Statistics Canada, is an area with a population of at least 1,000 and a density of 400 or more people per square kilometre. [1]
New Iceland (Icelandic: Nýja Ísland listen ⓘ) is the name of a region on Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba founded by Icelandic settlers in 1875.. The community of Gimli, which is home to the largest concentration of Icelanders outside of Iceland, is seen as the core of New Iceland. [1]
More than half of Manitoba's 1,148,801 population live in the urban area surrounding the city of Winnipeg.The urban area (UA) covers 448.92 square kilometres and had a 2006 census population of 641,483 (which was an increase of 2.3% from 2001).
Indigenous peoples (including Métis) are Manitoba's fastest-growing ethnic group, representing 13.6 percent of Manitoba's population as of 2001 (some reserves refused to allow census-takers to enumerate their populations or were otherwise incompletely counted). [77] [78] Gimli, Manitoba is home to the largest Icelandic community outside of ...
Gimli, Manitoba, is home to the largest Icelandic community outside Iceland. [2] This includes 26% of the population of Gimli proper (i.e., the unincorporated community of Gimli), and 20% of the Rural Municipality of Gimli population claiming Icelandic ancestry. [26] [27]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Division No. 18 had a population of 26,636 living in 11,025 of its 16,310 total private dwellings, a change of 10.3% from its 2016 population of 24,155. With a land area of 11,362.44 km 2 (4,387.06 sq mi), it had a population density of 2.3/km 2 (6.1/sq mi) in 2021. [1]