| Hotels nearby |
Tuesday![]() 8°C / 21°C 46°F / 70°F |
Wednesday![]() 9°C / 19°C 48°F / 66°F |
Thursday![]() 10°C / 20°C 50°F / 68°F |
In English
Edmonton City Center - View of Churchill Square and the Art Gallery Of Alberta
Hotels nearby (showing on the map)
Edmonton is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta. The city is located on the North Saskatchewan River in the central region of the province, an area with some of the most fertile farmland on the prairies. It is the second largest city in Alberta after Calgary, with a population of 730,372 (2006), and is the hub of Canada's sixth largest census metropolitan area, with a metropolitan population of 1,034,945 (2006), making it the northernmost North American city with a metropolitan population over one million. At , the City of Edmonton covers an area larger than Chicago, Philadelphia, Toronto or Montreal. Edmonton has one of the lowest population densities in North America, about 9.4% that of New York City. A resident of Edmonton is known as an "Edmontonian". Edmonton serves as the northern anchor of the Calgary-Edmonton Corridor (one of four regions that together comprise 50% of Canada's population) and is a staging point for large-scale oil sands projects occurring in ... Read more about Edmonton on Wikipedia