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.Tap on the map to travel |
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Popular Destinations
Calgary
Calgary is Alberta's largest city and Canada's third-largest, and is near where the prairies end and the foothills begin.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…
Banff National Park
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Banff National Park is in the Alberta Rockies region of Alberta.
Destinations
Calgary Region
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Calgary Region is the region centred on the city of Calgary in Alberta, Canada.
Central Alberta
Central Alberta is part of Alberta, located between the cities of Calgary and Edmonton.Northern Alberta
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Northern Alberta is a region that covers the entire northern half of Alberta, Canada.
Southern Alberta
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Southern Alberta is a region in Alberta, Canada. 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.
Alberta Rockies
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The Alberta Rockies are the portion of the Rocky Mountains in western Alberta, Canada.
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Alberta
- Type: State with 3,650,000 residents
- Description: province of Canada
- Neighbors: British Columbia, Montana, Northwest Territories and Saskatchewan
- Categories: province of Canada and locality
- Location: Prairies, Canada, North America
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Latitude of centre
55.0013° or 55° 0' 5" northLongitude of centre
-115.0021° or 115° 0' 8" westPopulation
3,650,000Elevation
3,116 metres (10,223 feet)Abbreviation
ABAbbreviation
Alb.Abbreviation
Alta.OpenStreetMap ID
node 305700703OpenStreetMap Feature
place=stateGeoNames ID
5883102Wikidata ID
Q1951Alberta Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Alberta
- Albanian: Alberta
- Amharic: አልቤርታ
- Arabic: Alberta
- Arabic: ألبرتا
- Armenian: Ալբերտա
- Assamese: এলবাৰ্টা
- Asturian: Alberta
- Awadhi: अल्बर्टा
- Azerbaijani: Alberta
- Balinese: Alberta
- Bashkir: Альберта
- Bashkir: Альберта провинцияһы
- Basque: Alberta
- Belarusian: Албэрта
- Belarusian: Альберта
- Belarusian: Альбэрта
- Belarusian: Правінцыя Альберта
- Bengali: অ্যালবার্টা
- 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: 亞省
- Chinese: 艾伯塔
- Chinese: 艾伯塔省
- Chinese: 艾省
- Chinese: 阿尔伯塔
- Chinese: 阿尔伯塔省
- Chinese: 阿省
- Cornish: Alberta
- Corsican: Alberta
- Croatian: Alberta
- Czech: Alberta
- Danish: Alberta
- Dimli (individual language): Alberta
- Dutch: Alberta
- Egyptian Arabic: البرتا
- English: AB
- English: Alta.
- English: CA-AB
- English: Province of Alberta
- English: Wild Rose Country
- Esperanto: AB
- Esperanto: Alberto
- Esperanto: Provinco Alberto
- Estonian: Alberta
- Faroese: Alberta
- Finnish: Alberta
- French: Alberta
- French: Province d’ Alberta
- Galician: Alberta
- Georgian: ალბერტა
- German: AB
- German: Alberta
- German: Alberta, Kanada
- Greek: Αλβέρτα
- Greek: Αλμπέρτα
- Guarani: Alberta
- Gujarati: એલ્બર્ટા
- Hakka Chinese: Alberta-sén
- Hausa: 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
- Kazakh: Альберта
- Kirghiz: Альберта
- Korean: 앨버타
- Korean: 앨버타 주
- 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
- Manx: Alberta
- Marathi: आल्बर्टा
- Min Dong Chinese: Alberta
- Min Nan Chinese: Alberta
- Mingrelian: ალბერთა
- Mongolian: Альберта
- Narom: Albèrta
- Northern Frisian: Alberta
- Norwegian: Alberta
- Norwegian Bokmål: Alberta
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Alberta
- Occitan (post 1500): Albèrta
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܐܠܒܪܛܐ
- 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: آلبرتا
- Quechua: Alberta pruwinsya
- Romanian: Alberta
- Russia Buriat: Альберта
- Russian: Альберта
- Samogitian: Alberta
- Sardinian: Alberta
- Scots: Alberta
- Scottish Gaelic: Alberta
- Serbian: Алберта
- Serbo-Croatian: Alberta
- Sinhala: අල්බෙර්ටා
- Slovak: Alberta
- Slovenian: Alberta
- Somali: Alberta
- South Azerbaijani: آلبئرتا
- Spanish: AB
- Spanish: Alberta
- Spanish: Alberta (Canadá)
- 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
- Tatar: Әлберта
- Telugu: అల్బర్టా
- Thai: รัฐแอลเบอร์ตา
- 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
- Yakut: Альберта
- Yiddish: אלבערטא
- Yue Chinese: 亞伯達
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Alberta. Photo: JakubFrys, CC BY-SA 4.0.