Photo: Capital City - Edmonton
This photo shows Edmonton's downtown skyline.
Edmonton is the capital city of the province of
Alberta. The city is located near the centre of the province. The
municipality of Edmonton is Canada's fifth largest with a population of
just over 700,000 based on the 2005 census. (And it's where my
Grandma lives!)
Edmonton has one of the lowest population densities in
all of North America (in other words there's lots of space compared to
the number of people who live there). It's a nice spacious place
to live with loads of parks and nice big yards.
To put it in perspective, the city of Edmonton takes
up more space (more land) than Chicago -- but Edmonton has only about
700,000 people while Chicago has nearly 3 million.
Another example for comparison is New York.
Edmonton has just about 70 times more land per person than New York
does. If you imagine land as jelly beans, every person in Edmonton
would get 70 jelly beans for every one jelly bean a person in New York
received. (My grandma likes jelly beans and long walks along the
North Saskatchewan river!) Alberta map and response worksheet
Alberta map - Name the Capital City
Alberta map - Name the Province
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