Wood Buffalo
Wood Buffalo is a region that covers the entire northeastern quadrant of Alberta, Canada. The entire region is drained by the Athabasca River, a major river that goes on to empty into the world's largest inland delta inside Wood Buffalo National Park.
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Fort McKay
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Wood Buffalo
- Specialized municipality in Alberta with 82,400 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 744 metres (2,441 feet)
- …is also known as “Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo”
- Description: specialized municipality in northeastern Alberta, Canada
- Neighbors: Wood Buffalo National Park
- Location
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Latitude of center
57.6644° or 57° 39′ 52″ north
Longitude of center
-112.0069° or 112° 0′ 25″ west
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Wood Buffalo” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “منطقة وودبفالو”
- Cebuano: “Wood Buffalo”
- Chinese: “伍德布法罗地区自治市”
- Chinese: “伍德布法羅地區自治市”
- Dutch: “Wood Buffalo”
- Finnish: “Wood Buffalo”
- French: “Municipalité régionale de Wood Buffalo”
- French: “Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo”
- French: “Wood Buffalo”
- German: “Wood Buffalo”
- Italian: “Wood Buffalo”
- Japanese: “ウッドバッファロー”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wood Buffalo”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wood Buffalo”
- Norwegian: “Wood Buffalo”
- Persian: “وود بوفالو”
- Romanian: “Wood Buffalo, Alberta”
- Romanian: “Wood Buffalo”
- Serbian: “Вуд Бафало”
- Slovenian: “Wood Buffalo”
- Spanish: “Municipalidad Regional de Wood Buffalo”
- Swahili: “Wood Buffalo, Alberta”
- Swahili: “Wood Buffalo”
- Swedish: “Wood Buffalo”
- Ukrainian: “Вуд-Баффало”
- Urdu: “ریجنل بلدیہ ووڈ بفیلو”
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