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Calgary Region

Calgary

Calgary is '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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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include City Centre and Northwest Calgary.

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Calgary refers to the most urban and dense area of Calgary. The area is best known as the location of the Downtown Commercial Core.

is in Calgary, , . Kensington, which surrounds the intersection of Kensington Road and 10 Street NW across the Louise Bridge from downtown, offers an inner-city experience with many independent shops, restaurants and pubs.

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is a district in Calgary, . It is a large, mostly suburban residential area that has some of the city's more prestigious neighbourhoods.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Southeast Calgary and Northeast Calgary.

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is a district in Calgary, . is a large area that has urban, suburban, and industrial neighbourhoods.

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is a district in Calgary. The Northeast is full of variety: upstart breweries spicing up faceless warehouses, a Ukrainian Orthodox cathedral standing beside new concrete and glass condos, a shining mosque dome overlooking the airport, and cookie-cutter housing and prefab concrete spreading as far as the eye can see.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Scotiabank Saddledome and Calgary Tower.

Stadium
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is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Located in Stampede Park in the southeast end of , the Saddledome was built in 1983 to replace the Stampede Corral as the home of the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League, and to host ice hockey and figure skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics.

The is a 190.8-metre free-standing observation tower in the of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Originally called the Husky Tower, it was conceived as a joint venture between Marathon Realty Company Limited and Husky Oil as part of an urban renewal plan and to celebrate Canada's centennial of 1967.

Museum
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The is an art and history regional museum in the city of Calgary, , Canada. The museum focuses on Western Canadian history and culture, including Indigenous perspectives.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Beltline and Renfrew.

Suburb
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is a community in central Calgary, , Canada. The area is located immediately to the south of Calgary's , and is sometimes considered part of downtown.

Suburb
is a residential neighbourhood in the northeast quadrant of Calgary, . It is located south of the Trans-Canada Highway, and north of the inner city community of .

Suburb
is a residential neighbourhood in the northwest quadrant of Calgary, , . It is located immediately north of the Trans-Canada Highway, and is bisected by 14th Street West.

Calgary

Latitude
51.0456° or 51° 2′ 44″ north
Longitude
-114.0575° or 114° 3′ 27″ west
Population
1,270,000
Elevation
1,048 metres (3,438 feet)
IATA airport code
YYC
United Nations Location Code
CA CAL
Open location code
95372WWR+6X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4511426446
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5913490
Wiki­data ID
Q36312
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Calgary” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Calgary”
  • Afrikaans: “Calgary”
  • Albanian: “Calgary”
  • Albanian: “Kalgari”
  • Amharic: “ካልገሪ”
  • Arabic: “كالجاري”
  • Arabic: “كالغاري”
  • Armenian: “Կալգարի”
  • Asturian: “Calgary”
  • Atikamekw: “Calgary”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kalqari”
  • Balinese: “Calgary”
  • Bashkir: “Калгари”
  • Basque: “Calgary”
  • Belarusian: “Калгары”
  • Bengali: “ক্যালগারি”
  • Bosnian: “Kaljari”
  • Breton: “Calgary”
  • Bulgarian: “Калгари”
  • Burmese: “ကယ်လဂါရီမြို့(ကနေဒါ)”
  • Burmese: “ကယ်လ်ဂရီမြို့”
  • Burmese: “ခဲလ်ဂရီမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Calgary”
  • Cebuano: “Calgary”
  • Central Kurdish: “کالگاری”
  • Chechen: “Калгари”
  • Chinese: “Calgary”
  • Chinese: “卡加”
  • Chinese: “卡加利”
  • Chinese: “卡加里”
  • Chinese: “卡城”
  • Chinese: “卡尔加利”
  • Chinese: “卡尔加里”
  • Chinese: “卡技利”
  • Chinese: “卡爾加里”
  • Corsican: “Calgary”
  • Croatian: “Calgary”
  • Czech: “Calgary”
  • Danish: “Calgary”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Calgary”
  • Dutch: “Calgary”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كالجارى”
  • Esperanto: “Calgary”
  • Esperanto: “Kalgario”
  • Esperanto: “Kalgerio”
  • Estonian: “Calgary”
  • Faroese: “Calgary”
  • Finnish: “Calgary”
  • French: “Calgary”
  • Galician: “Calgary”
  • Georgian: “კალგარი”
  • German: “Calgary”
  • Greek: “Κάλγκαρι, Αλμπέρτα”
  • Greek: “Κάλγκαρι, Καναδάς”
  • Greek: “Κάλγκαρι”
  • Greek: “Κάλγκαρυ”
  • Gujarati: “કેલગરી”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Calgary”
  • Hausa: “Calgary”
  • Hebrew: “קלגרי”
  • Hindi: “कैलगरी”
  • Hindi: “कैलगेरी”
  • Hungarian: “Calgary”
  • Icelandic: “Calgary”
  • Ido: “Calgary”
  • Iloko: “Calgary”
  • Inari Sami: “Calgary”
  • Indonesian: “Calgary”
  • Interlingue: “Calgary”
  • Irish: “Calgary”
  • Italian: “Calgary”
  • Japanese: “カルガリー”
  • Japanese: “カルガリー市”
  • Kalaallisut: “Calgary”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ಯಾಲ್ಗರಿ”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Калгари”
  • Kazakh: “Калгари”
  • Kirghiz: “Калгари шаары, Канада”
  • Kirghiz: “Калгари”
  • Korean: “캘가리”
  • Korean: “캘거리”
  • Kurdish: “Calgary”
  • Latin: “Calgaria”
  • Latvian: “Calgary”
  • Latvian: “Kalgari”
  • Latvian: “Kalgarī”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Calgary”
  • Literary Chinese: “卡加利”
  • Lithuanian: “Calgary”
  • Lithuanian: “Kalgaris”
  • Lombard: “Calgary”
  • Luxembourgish: “Calgary”
  • Macedonian: “Калгари”
  • Malagasy: “Calgary”
  • Malay: “Calgary”
  • Malayalam: “കാൽഗറി”
  • Maltese: “Calgary”
  • Marathi: “कॅल्गरी”
  • Marathi: “कॅल्गारी”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Calgary”
  • Moksha: “Калгари”
  • Mongolian: “Калгари”
  • Northern Frisian: “Calgary”
  • Northern Sami: “Calgary”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Calgary”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Calgary”
  • Norwegian: “Calgary”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Calgary”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cælghearig”
  • Ossetian: “Калгари”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੈਲਗਰੀ ਸ਼ਹਿਰ”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੈਲਗਰੀ”
  • Papiamento: “Calgary”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Calgary”
  • Persian: “کالگری”
  • Persian: “کلگری”
  • Picard: “Calgary”
  • Piemontese: “Calgary”
  • Polish: “Calgary”
  • Portuguese: “Calgary, Alberta”
  • Portuguese: “Calgary”
  • Quechua: “Calgary”
  • Romanian: “Calgary”
  • Russian: “Calgary”
  • Russian: “Калгари”
  • Sardinian: “Calgary”
  • Scots: “Calgary”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Calgary”
  • Serbian: “Calgary”
  • Serbian: “Kalgari”
  • Serbian: “Калгари”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Calgary”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kalgari”
  • Silesian: “Calgary”
  • Sinhala: “කැල්ගරි”
  • Skolt Sami: “Calgary”
  • Slovak: “Calgary”
  • Slovenian: “Calgary”
  • Somali: “Calgary”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کلگری”
  • Spanish: “Calgary (Alberta)”
  • Spanish: “Calgary (Canadá)”
  • Spanish: “Calgary”
  • Swahili: “Calgary”
  • Swedish: “Calgary”
  • Tagalog: “Calgary”
  • Tajik: “Калгари”
  • Tajik: “Калгарӣ”
  • Tamil: “கால்கரி”
  • Tatar: “Кәлгари”
  • Tatar: “Кәлгери”
  • Telugu: “కాల్గరీ”
  • Thai: “Calgary”
  • Thai: “แคลกะรี”
  • Turkish: “Calgary”
  • Turkmen: “Kalgary”
  • Twi: “Calgary”
  • Twi: “Kalgεri”
  • Uighur: “Kalgari”
  • Uighur: “كالگارى”
  • Ukrainian: “Калгарі”
  • Ukrainian: “Калґарі”
  • Urdu: “کیلگری”
  • Uzbek: “Kalgari”
  • Venetian: “Calgary”
  • Veps: “Kalgari”
  • Vietnamese: “Calgary, Alberta”
  • Vietnamese: “Calgary”
  • Volapük: “Calgary”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Calgary”
  • Welsh: “Calgary”
  • Western Armenian: “Գալկարի”
  • Western Armenian: “Կալգարի”
  • Western Frisian: “Calgary”
  • Western Frisian: “Kelgery”
  • Western Panjabi: “کالگری”
  • Western Panjabi: “کیلگری”
  • Wu Chinese: “卡尔加里”
  • Yakut: “Калгари”
  • Yiddish: “קאלגארי”
  • Yue Chinese: “卡加利”
  • Yue Chinese: “卡爾加利”
  • “ma tomo Kakawi”

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