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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]
Other divisions. 0.1 to 1,000,000+ square kilometers; 1,000,000+ square kilometers; Smaller divisions. 200,000+ square kilometers • 100,000 to 1,000,000 square ...
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 ...
square foot: sq ft ≡ 1 ft × 1 ft: ≡ 9.290 304 × 10 −2 m 2: square foot (US Survey) sq ft ≡ 1 ft (US) × 1 ft (US) ≈ 9.290 341 161 3275 × 10 −2 m 2: square inch: sq in ≡ 1 in × 1 in: ≡ 6.4516 × 10 −4 m 2: square kilometre: km 2: ≡ 1 km × 1 km = 10 6 m 2: square link (Gunter's)(International) sq lnk ≡ 1 lnk × 1 lnk ...
Canada claims 22 km (12 nmi) of territorial sea, a contiguous zone of 44 km (24 nmi), an exclusive economic zone of 5,599,077 km 2 (2,161,816 sq mi) with 370 km (200 nmi) and a continental shelf of 370 km (200 nmi) or to the edge of the continental margin. Five per cent of Canada's land area is arable, none of which is for permanent crops.
The largest lake completely within Alberta is Lake Claire, at 1,436 km 2 (554 sq mi). Lake Claire is just west of Lake Athabasca, with both located in the remote Peace-Athabasca Delta . This section provides a list of lakes of Alberta with an area larger than 100 km 2 (39 sq mi).
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]