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Alberta

First-level unit, Canada: people, area, the units inside and neighbours, with risk values when released.

Page GRX-CAN-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO CAN / CAStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
5,019,700
people (GHSL 2025)
660,267 km²
area
13.3%
of Canada
8
units inside

01Map

Inside Alberta

The 8 ADM2 units of Alberta.

FIG 1 · 8 units inside Alberta
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Figures

People, area and density

Source observations from open grids summed inside the boundary; not index values.

People · GHSL 2025

5,019,700

13.3% of Canada.

People · WorldPop 2025

4,564,773

-9% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

क्षेत्र

660,267 km²

8 people per km².

कोड

CA-AB

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

03Units

8 units inside Alberta

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Open Government Canada 2.0

Unit कोड People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Athabasca–Grande Prairie–Pe* – 331,126 259,176 275,633.45 1 6.6% 0
Banff–Jasper–Rocky Mountain* – 110,617 89,906 74,675.93 1 2.2% 0
Calgary – 1,868,786 1,715,994 12,835.16 146 37.2% 0
Camrose–Drumheller – 259,019 202,813 80,702.69 3 5.2% 0
Edmonton – 1,665,276 1,608,899 16,387.2 102 33.2% 0
Lethbridge–Medicine Hat – 357,566 319,640 53,087.02 7 7.1% 0
Red Deer – 246,593 223,379 10,251.56 24 4.9% 0
Wood Buffalo–Cold Lake – 180,718 144,966 136,702.99 1 3.6% 0
04संपर्कात येणे

Open exposure layers

Count of H3 resolution-3 cells whose centre falls in the unit and that carry each Natural Earth layer.

Urban areas
1,273 H3 cells
Ports
None at this resolution
Airports
9 H3 cells
Major roads
8,951.7 H3 cells
Railways
4,622.4 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
4,237.6 H3 cells
05जोखीम

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Alberta publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for Canada.
06Neighbours

Neighbouring units

07स्रोत

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen CAN ADM1, source: Statistics Canada (StatCan), licence: Open Government Canada 2.0 · source · represents 2023
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen CAN ADM2, source: Statistics Canada (StatCan), licence: Open Government Canada 2.0 · source · represents 2022
ADM3 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen CAN ADM3, source: Statistics Canada (StatCan) © OpenStreetMap contributors, licence: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 (share-alike: this boundary layer is offered under the same licence) · source · represents 2016. Offered under the same licence (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0), kept as its own layer and not merged into other data.
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
देश
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.