Alberta
Alberta spans great, contrasting sceneries of mountains, forests and prairies. It offers the visitor six UNESCO World Heritage sites, preserving mountain vistas, Wood Buffalo National Park, Dinosaur Provincial Park, historic Indigenous rock art, and buffalo hunting sites.
Photo: Gorgo, Public domain.
Popular Destinations
Calgary
Calgary is Alberta's largest city and Canada's fourth-largest, and is near where the prairies end and the foothills begin. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.Banff National Park
Banff National Park is in the Alberta Rockies region of Alberta. Photo: laszlo-photo, CC BY-SA 2.0.Calgary Region
Calgary Region is the region centred on the city of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. Photo: Elpoca, CC BY-SA 3.0.- Type: State
- Description: province of Canada
- Categories: province of Canada and locality
- Location: Prairies, Canada, North America
- Neighbors: British Columbia, Montana, Northwest Territories and Saskatchewan
Destinations
Edmonton Capital Region
Edmonton Capital Region is the metropolitan area of Edmonton, Alberta. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.Central Alberta
Central Alberta is part of Alberta, located between the cities of Calgary and Edmonton. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.Northern Alberta
Northern Alberta is a region that covers the entire northern half of Alberta, Canada. Photo: Lucky Lynda, CC BY 2.0.Southern Alberta
Southern Alberta is a region in Alberta, Canada. The region features flat wheat fields and ranchlands but also has the Rocky Mountains in the furthest western portion and badland and hoodoo formations and a paleontology hotbed. Photo: Matthias Süßen, CC BY-SA 3.0.Alberta Rockies
The Alberta Rockies are the portion of the Rocky Mountains in western Alberta, Canada. Photo: Traveler100, CC BY-SA 4.0.Alberta
Latitude of center
55.0013° or 55° 0' 5" northLongitude of center
-115.0021° or 115° 0' 8" westPopulation
3,650,000Elevation
3,116 metres (10,223 feet)Abbreviation
ABAbbreviation
Alb.Abbreviation
Alta.OpenStreetMap ID
node 305700703GeoNames ID
5883102Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Alberta
- Albanian: Alberta
- Amharic: አልቤርታ
- Arabic: Alberta
- Arabic: ألبرتا
- Aramaic: ܐܠܒܪܛܐ
- Armenian: Ալբերտա
- Asturian; Bable: Alberta
- Azerbaijani: Alberta
- Bashkir: Альберта
- Bashkir: Альберта провинцияһы
- Basque: Alberta
- Belarusian: Албэрта
- Belarusian: Альберта
- Belarusian: Альбэрта
- Belarusian: Правінцыя Альберта
- Bengali: অ্যালবার্টা
- Bhojpuri: अलबर्टा
- Bhojpuri: अल्बर्टा
- Bihari : अल्बर्टा
- Bosnian: Alberta
- Breton: Alberta
- Bulgarian: Албърта
- Burmese: အယ်လဗားတားပြည်နယ်
- Catalan: Alberta
- Cebuano: Alberta
- Central Kurdish: ئەلبێرتا
- Chinese: Alberta
- Chinese: 亞伯達
- Chinese: 亞伯達省
- Chinese: 亞省
- Chinese: 艾伯塔
- Chinese: 艾伯塔省
- Chinese: 艾省
- Chinese: 阿尔伯塔
- Chinese: 阿尔伯塔省
- Chinese: 阿省
- Cornish: Alberta
- Corsican: Alberta
- Croatian: Alberta
- Czech: Alberta
- Danish: Alberta
- Dimli: Alberta
- Dutch: Alberta
- Egyptian Spoken Arabic: البرتا
- English, Old (ca.450-1100): Alberta
- English: AB
- English: Alta.
- English: Province of Alberta
- Esperanto: AB
- Esperanto: Alberto
- Esperanto: Provinco Alberto
- Estonian: Alberta
- Faroese: Alberta
- Finnish: Alberta
- French: Alberta
- French: Province d’ Alberta
- Frisian: Alberta
- Gaelic (Scots): Alberta
- Gallegan: Alberta
- Georgian: ალბერტა
- German: AB
- German: Alberta
- German: Alberta, Kanada
- Greek: Αλβέρτα
- Greek: Αλμπέρτα
- Guarani: Alberta
- Gujarati: એલ્બર્ટા
- Hakka Chinese: Alberta-sén
- Hausa: Alberta-sén
- Hebrew: אלברטה
- Hindi: अल्बर्टा
- Hungarian: Alberta
- Icelandic: Alberta
- Ido: Alberta
- Indonesian: Alberta
- Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association): Alberta
- Interlingue: Alberta
- Inuktitut: ᐊᐊᕘᑕ
- Inuktitut: ᐋᓪᐴᑕ
- Irish: Alberta
- Italian: Alberta
- Japanese: アルバータ州
- Javanese: Alberta
- Kabuverdianu: Alberta
- Kalaallisut: Alberta
- Kannada: ಆಲ್ಬರ್ಟಾ
- Kazakh: Альберта
- Kirghiz: Альберта
- Korean: 앨버타
- Korean: 앨버타 주
- Korean: 앨버타주
- Kurdish: Alberta
- Kurdish: Elbêrta
- Ladino: Alberta
- Latin: Alberta
- Latvian: Alberta
- Letzeburgesch: Alberta
- Ligurian: Alberta
- Limburgish, Limburger, Limburgan: Alberta
- Lithuanian: Alberta
- Macedonian: Алберта
- Malay (generic): Alberta
- Malayalam: ആൽബർട്ട
- Manx: Alberta
- Marathi: आल्बर्टा
- Min Dong Chinese: Alberta
- Min Nan Chinese: Alberta
- Mingrelian: ალბერთა
- Mongolian: Альберта
- Northern Frisian: Alberta
- Norwegian: Alberta
- Norwegian Bokmål: Alberta
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Alberta
- Occitan (post 1500); Provençal: Albèrta
- Ossetian; Ossetic: Альбертæ
- Pampanga: Alberta
- Panjabi: ਅਲਬਰਟਾ
- Panjabi: ਐਲਬਰਟਾ
- Papiamento: Alberta
- Persian: آلبرتا
- Persian: استان آلبرتا
- Piemontese: Alberta
- Polish: AB
- Polish: Alberta, Kanada
- Polish: Alberta
- Portuguese: Alberta
- Pushto: آلبرتا
- Quechua: Alberta pruwinsya
- Romanian: Alberta
- Russia Buriat: Альберта
- Russian: Альберта
- Sardinian: Alberta
- Scots: Alberta
- Serbian: Алберта
- Serbo-Croatian: Alberta
- Sinhalese: අල්බෙර්ටා
- Slovak: Alberta
- Slovenian: Alberta
- Somali: Alberta
- South Azerbaijani: آلبئرتا
- Spanish: Alberta
- Swahili (generic): AB
- Swahili (generic): Alberta
- Swahili (generic): Alta.
- Swahili (generic): Province of Alberta
- Swedish: Alberta
- Tagalog: Alberta
- Tajik: Алберта
- Tamil: அல்பேர்ட்டா
- Tamil: ஆல்பர்ட்டா
- Tatar: Альберта
- Tatar: Әлберта
- Telugu: అల్బర్టా
- Thai: รัฐแอลเบอร์ตา
- Turkish: Alberta
- Uighur: Albérta
- Ukrainian: Альберта
- Urdu: البرٹا
- Uzbek: Alberta
- Venetian: Alberta
- Vietnamese: AB
- Vietnamese: Alberta
- Vietnamese: Alta.
- Vietnamese: tỉnh Alberta
- Volapük: Alberta
- Waray (Philippines): Alberta
- Welsh: Alberta
- Western Panjabi: البرٹا
- Western Panjabi: ایلبرٹا
- Wu Chinese: 艾伯塔省
- Yakut: Альберта
- Yiddish: אלבערטא
- Yue Chinese: 亞伯達
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