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The westernmost of Canada's three Prairie provinces,
Alberta lies between the 49th and 60th parallels, at virtually the
same latitude as the United Kingdom. Alberta is 1217 km from north
to south and between 293 and 650 km in width from west to east.
Nearly equal in size to the state of Texas, the province covers
an area of some 661,185 km2. |
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Roughly half of the southwestern section of the province
is dominated by mountains and foothills - striking reminders of
the glaciers that, over millions of years, formed, moved and receded
in the area. Peaks of the Rocky Mountains located in Alberta range
from 2130 to 3747 m in elevation. The foothills feature heavily
forested areas and grasslands used for grazing cattle and contain
some of the province's richest deposits of sour gas and coal. |
| Floral Emblem Of Alberta
Wild Rose, rosa acicularis,
(adopted 1930) grows almost everywhere in the province, brightening
the countryside
with flashes of pink. |
The remainder of the province - approximately 90
percent of the land area - forms part of the interior plain of North
America. The plains include the forested areas that dominate the
northern part of the province and the vast stretches of northern
muskeg that overlay much of Alberta's oil and gas deposits and oil
sands. |
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