States or Territories

Alberta

Province

Citation Formats

General Reference

Geography Atlas. "Alberta." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-geography.interactiveatlas.org/states/alberta.

APA Style

Geography Atlas. (n.d.). Alberta. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-geography.interactiveatlas.org/states/alberta

BibTeX

@misc{geographyatlas-alberta,
  author = {Geography Atlas},
  title = {Alberta},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-geography.interactiveatlas.org/states/alberta},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Alberta is a province in Canada, part of Western Canada and one of the three prairie provinces. It is bordered by British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Territories to the north and the U.S. state of Montana to the south. Its capital is Edmonton, and the 2021 census recorded a population of 4,368,370 across an area of 661,849 square kilometers.

Facts

Capital

Edmonton 1

Population

4,368,370 1

2021 census figure from Alberta's own Wikipedia infobox.

Population Estimate Year

2021 1

Area (sq km)

661,849 1

Latitude

54.5 degrees north 1

Longitude

115 degrees west 1

Cross-Tradition Connections

Associated With

Canada

Alberta is a province of Canada.

Source Alberta (Wikipedia)

Has Capital

Edmonton

Edmonton is the capital of Alberta.

Source Edmonton (Wikipedia)

On Continent

North America

Alberta's own infobox names Canada as its country (checked live this session); Canada is on-continent North America (its own live edge, content.EntityRelationship, checked this session), so Alberta is on-continent North America.

Source Alberta (Wikipedia)

Sources

1. Alberta (Wikipedia)

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