Alberta
Alberta is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. With an estimated population of 4,067,175 people as of the 2016 census, it is Canada's fourth most populous province and the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces. Alberta's area is approximately 660,000 square kilometres.Alberta is bordered by the provinces of British Columbia to the west and Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Territories to the north, and the U.S.... Show more state of Montana to the south. Alberta is one of three Canadian provinces and territories to border only a single U.S. state. It is also one of only two landlocked provinces in the country.Alberta's capital, Edmonton, is near the geographic centre of the province; it is the primary supply and service hub for Canada's crude oil, the Athabasca oil sands and other northern resource industries. About 290 km south of Edmonton is Calgary, the largest...