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Alberta

Alberta spans great, contrasting sceneries of mountains, forests and prairies. It offers the visitor six UNESCO World Heritage sites, preserving mountain vistas, the world's largest inland delta and largest protected boreal forest, one of the world's great dinosaur fossil beds, historic Indigenous rock art, and ancient buffalo hunting sites.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Calgary and Edmonton.

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is Alberta's largest city and Canada's third-largest, and is near where the prairies end and the foothills begin. That makes it the eastern gateway to the and an important centre of trade and tourism for the western prairies.

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is the capital city of Alberta. Its is home to 1.3 million people, and is the northernmost city of at least one million people in North America, the fifth-largest city in Canada and the largest Canadian city farther than 200 kilometres from the US border.

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is in the region of Alberta. Together with six other national parks it makes up the UNESCO World Heritage site "Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks".

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Calgary Region and Edmonton Capital Region.

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is the region centred on the city of in Alberta, . Traditionally an agricultural area, it is a mix of suburban towns and semi-rural areas that are becoming bedroom communities to Calgary.

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is the metropolitan area of , Alberta. The population of this area is 1.3 million, making it sixth largest metro area in .

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is part of Alberta, located between the cities of and . The eastern portion is largely agricultural, while the western portion is part of the foothills of the .

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is a region that covers the entire northern half of Alberta, . Even more than the rest of Alberta, the North is relatively remote and sparsely populated.

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is a region in Alberta, . 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.

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The are the portion of the in western Alberta, . This region attracts many visitors with its beauty, outdoor activities and two of Canada's oldest and best known national parks, and .
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Alberta

Latitude of center
55.0013° or 55° 0′ 5″ north
Longitude of center
-115.0021° or 115° 0′ 8″ west
Population
3,650,000
Elevation
3,116 metres (10,223 feet)
Abbreviation
“AB”
Abbreviation
“Alb.”
Abbreviation
“Alta.”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 305700703
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
5883102
Wiki­data ID
Q1951
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Alberta” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Alberta”
  • Albanian: “Alberta”
  • Amharic: “አልቤርታ”
  • Arabic: “ألبرتا”
  • Armenian: “Ալբերտա”
  • Assamese: “এলবাৰ্টা”
  • Asturian: “Alberta”
  • Awadhi: “अल्बर्टा”
  • Azerbaijani: “Alberta”
  • Balinese: “Alberta”
  • Bashkir: “Альберта провинцияһы”
  • Bashkir: “Альберта”
  • Basque: “Alberta”
  • Belarusian: “Албэрта”
  • Belarusian: “Альберта”
  • Belarusian: “Правінцыя Альберта”
  • Bengali: “অ্যালবার্টা”
  • Betawi: “Albèrta”
  • Bhojpuri: “अलबर्टा”
  • Bhojpuri: “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: “艾伯塔”
  • Chinese: “艾伯塔省”
  • Chinese: “阿尔伯塔”
  • Chinese: “阿尔伯塔省”
  • Chinese: “阿爾伯塔省”
  • Cornish: “Alberta”
  • Corsican: “Alberta”
  • Croatian: “Alberta”
  • Czech: “Alberta”
  • Danish: “Alberta”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Alberta”
  • Dutch: “Alberta”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “البرتا”
  • Esperanto: “AB”
  • Esperanto: “Alberto”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Alberto”
  • Estonian: “Alberta”
  • Faroese: “Alberta”
  • Finnish: “Alberta”
  • French: “Alberta”
  • French: “Province d’ Alberta”
  • Fulah: “Alberta”
  • Galician: “Alberta”
  • Galician: “Provincia de Alberta”
  • Georgian: “ალბერტა”
  • German: “AB”
  • German: “Alberta, Kanada”
  • German: “Alberta”
  • Greek: “Αλβέρτα”
  • Greek: “Αλμπέρτα”
  • Guarani: “Alberta”
  • Gujarati: “એલ્બર્ટા”
  • Haitian: “Alberta”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Alberta-sén”
  • Hebrew: “אלברטה”
  • Hindi: “अल्बर्टा”
  • Hungarian: “Alberta”
  • Icelandic: “Alberta”
  • Ido: “Alberta”
  • Indonesian: “Alberta”
  • Interlingua: “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”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Альберта”
  • Kazakh: “Альберта”
  • Kirghiz: “Альберта”
  • Korean: “앨버타 주”
  • Korean: “앨버타”
  • Korean: “앨버타주”
  • Kurdish: “Alberta”
  • Kurdish: “Elbêrta”
  • Ladino: “Alberta”
  • Latin: “Alberta”
  • Latvian: “Alberta”
  • Ligurian: “Alberta”
  • Limburgan: “Alberta”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Alberta”
  • Literary Chinese: “亞伯達”
  • Lithuanian: “Alberta”
  • Luxembourgish: “Alberta”
  • Macedonian: “Алберта”
  • Malay: “Alberta”
  • Malayalam: “ആൽബർട്ട”
  • Maltese: “Alberta”
  • Manx: “Alberta”
  • Marathi: “आल्बर्टा”
  • Mazanderani: “آلبرتا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Alberta”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Alberta”
  • Mingrelian: “ალბერთა”
  • Mongolian: “Альберта”
  • Narom: “Albèrta”
  • Northern Frisian: “Alberta”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Alberta”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Alberta”
  • Norwegian: “Alberta”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Albèrta”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܠܒܪܛܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Æþelbyrhtalond”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Alberta”
  • Ossetian: “Альбертæ”
  • Pampanga: “Alberta”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਲਬਰਟਾ”
  • Panjabi: “ਐਲਬਰਟਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Alberta”
  • Persian: “آلبرتا”
  • Persian: “استان آلبرتا”
  • Piemontese: “Alberta”
  • Polish: “AB”
  • Polish: “Alberta, Kanada”
  • Polish: “Alberta”
  • Portuguese: “AB”
  • Portuguese: “Alberta”
  • Portuguese: “Província de Alberta”
  • Pushto: “البرتا”
  • Quechua: “Alberta pruwinsya”
  • Romanian: “Alberta”
  • Russia Buriat: “Альберта”
  • Russian: “Альберта”
  • Samogitian: “Alberta”
  • Sardinian: “Alberta”
  • Scots: “Alberta”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Alberta”
  • Serbian: “Алберта”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Alberta”
  • Sindhi: “البرٽا”
  • Sinhala: “අල්බෙර්ටා”
  • Sinhala: “ඇල්බර්ටා, කැනඩාව”
  • Slovak: “Alberta”
  • Slovenian: “Alberta”
  • Somali: “Alberta”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آلبئرتا”
  • Spanish: “AB”
  • Spanish: “Alberta (Canadá)”
  • Spanish: “Alberta”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Alberta”
  • Swahili: “AB”
  • Swahili: “Alberta”
  • Swahili: “Alta.”
  • Swahili: “Province of Alberta”
  • Swedish: “Alberta”
  • Tagalog: “Alberta”
  • Tajik: “Алберта”
  • Tamil: “அல்பேர்ட்டா”
  • Tamil: “ஆல்பர்ட்டா”
  • Tatar: “Альберта”
  • Telugu: “అల్బర్టా”
  • Thai: “รัฐแอลเบอร์ตา”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “ʻAlapeta”
  • Turkish: “Alberta”
  • Uighur: “Albérta”
  • Ukrainian: “Альберта”
  • Urdu: “البرٹا”
  • Uzbek: “Alberta”
  • Venetian: “Alberta”
  • Vietnamese: “AB”
  • Vietnamese: “Alberta”
  • Vietnamese: “Alta.”
  • Vietnamese: “tỉnh Alberta”
  • Vlaams: “Alberta”
  • Volapük: “Alberta”
  • Võro: “Alberta”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Alberta”
  • Welsh: “Alberta”
  • Western Frisian: “Alberta”
  • Western Panjabi: “البرٹا”
  • Western Panjabi: “ایلبرٹا”
  • Wu Chinese: “艾伯塔省”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿尔伯塔省”
  • Yakut: “Альберта”
  • Yiddish: “אלבערטא”
  • Yue Chinese: “亞伯達”
  • “AB”
  • “Alberta”
  • “Albèrta”
  • “अल्बर्टा”

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