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Grande Prairie
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city in Alberta, Canada
Key facts
- Federal electoral district
- Grande Prairie-Mackenzie
- Provincial electoral districts
- Grande Prairie , Grande Prairie-Wapiti
- Village
- April 30, 1914
- Town
- March 15, 1919
- City
- January 1, 1958
- Mayor
- Jackie Clayton
- Governing body
- Grande Prairie City Council Grant Berg Dylan Bressey Leonard Auger Jena Flach Wade Pilat Kevin O'Toole Mike O'Connor Chris Thiessen
- City manager
- Robert Nicolay (Interim)
- Mp
- Chris Warkentin ( Conservative )
- Mla
- Nolan Dyck ( UCP ) Ron Wiebe ( UCP )
- Land
- 132.71 km (51.24 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 650 m (2,130 ft)
- Total
- 64,141
- Density
- 483.3/km (1,252/sq mi)
- Municipal census 2024
- 70,385
- Time zone
- UTC−07:00 ( MST )
- Summer dst
- UTC−06:00 (MDT)
- Forward sortation areas
- T8V - T8X
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- City of Grande Prairie
- Country
- Canada
- Located in
- Alberta
- Population
- 64141
- Area
- 132.73
- Elevation
- 650
- Shares border with
- Sexsmith
- Official website
- www.cityofgp.com
- Image
- Grande Prairie street.jpg
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- Commons category
- Grande Prairie
- topic's main category
- Category:Grande Prairie
- inception
- 1914-04-30
- postal code
- T8X
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Grande Prairie
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Encyclopedic overview
Grande Prairie is a city in northwestern Alberta, Canada, within the southern portion of an area known as Peace River Country. It is located at the intersection of Highway 43 (part of the CANAMEX Corridor) and Highway 40 (the Bighorn Highway), approximately 456 kilometres (283 mi) northwest of the provincial capital, Edmonton. The city is surrounded by the County of Grande Prairie No. 1.
Grande Prairie was the seventh-largest city in Alberta in 2016, with a population of 63,166, and was one of Canada's fastest growing cities between 2001 and 2006, and Canada's northernmost city with more than 50,000 people.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Grande Prairie” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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