Prairies
The Prairies are a region in the centre of Canada, made up of three provinces: Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. Though the word "prairie" means grassland, this region also contains mountains, hills, lakes, shoreline, and metropolitan cities.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Calgary and Edmonton.
Calgary
Calgary 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 Rocky Mountains and an important centre of trade and tourism for the western prairies.
Edmonton
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Edmonton is the capital city of Alberta. Its metro area 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.
Winnipeg
Winnipeg is Manitoba's capital and has more people than the rest of Manitoba combined. It stands midway on the Trans-Canada Highway and railway. With nearly 750,000 inhabitants, The Peg is the metropolis for the Canadian Prairies and is as diverse as the majority of Canada.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Alberta and Saskatchewan.
Alberta
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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.
Saskatchewan
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Saskatchewan is a Canadian province in the Prairies. While the southern third of the province is a prairie known for its flat fields of wheat, the northern two-thirds is covered in the boreal forest of the Canadian Shield, with most of Saskatchewan's 100,000 lakes.
Manitoba
Manitoba is a province in the Prairies of Canada. It is well known for its agriculture, culture and history. Visitors come for the fishing and other outdoor activities, although there are several historical sites worth visiting.
Prairies
- Type: Region
- Description: geographical region in Western Canada including the Canadian portion of the Great Plains and the Prairie Provinces (Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba)
- Also known as: “Canadian Prairies”, “Prairie Provinces”, “Prairie region (Canada)”, “Prairies (Canada)”, and “The Prairies”
- Location: Canada, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Prairies” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “المروج الكندية”
- Basque: “Kanadako belardiak”
- Catalan: “Praderies canadenques”
- Chinese: “草原三省”
- Czech: “Kanadské prérie”
- Czech: “Prérijní provincie”
- Esperanto: “Kanadaj Prerioj”
- Esperanto: “Preriaj provincoj”
- French: “ALSAMA”
- French: “Prairies canadiennes”
- French: “Prairies”
- French: “Provinces des Prairies”
- Galician: “Pradarías canadenses”
- German: “Prärieprovinz”
- German: “Prärieprovinzen”
- Hebrew: “המישורים”
- Hebrew: “ערבות קנדה”
- Indonesian: “Prairie Kanada”
- Italian: “Praterie canadesi”
- Japanese: “カナダ平原部”
- Japanese: “カナディアン・プレーリー”
- Japanese: “カナディアン・プレーリース”
- Japanese: “カナディアンプレーリー”
- Korean: “the prairie provinces”
- Latin: “Pratariae Canadienses”
- Lithuanian: “Kanados prerijos”
- Macedonian: “Канадски Прерии”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “De kanadiske prærieprovinsene”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “De kanadiske prærier”
- Norwegian: “De kanadiske prærier”
- Persian: “دشتهای کانادا”
- Portuguese: “Pradarias canadenses”
- Portuguese: “Pradarias canadianas”
- Portuguese: “Pradarias”
- Russian: “Канадские прерии”
- Russian: “Канадские Прерии”
- Russian: “Прерия”
- Serbian: “Kanadska prerija”
- Serbian: “Канадска прерија”
- Spanish: “ALSAMA”
- Spanish: “Praderas canadienses”
- Spanish: “Praderas”
- Spanish: “Provincias de la pradera”
- Swedish: “Canadian Prairies”
- Swedish: “Kanadensiska prärierna”
- Turkish: “Kanada Bozkırları”
- Ukrainian: “Канадські прерії”
- Venetian: “Pradarie canadezi”
- Western Frisian: “Kanadeeske Prêrjes”
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