Alberta
Canadian Province
Alberta is a province in Western Canada. Its landscape encompasses mountains, prairies, desert badlands and vast coniferous forests. It has more than 600 lakes, and rich mineral deposits. In the west, the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks have...
Capital: Edmonton
Population: 4.371 million (2019)
Canadian postal abbr.: AB
Confederation: September 1, 1905; 119 years ago (split from NWT) (10th, with Saskatchewan)
Demonym: Albertan
Flower: Wild rose
ISO 3166 code: CA-AB
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Alberta is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is a part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces.
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