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The Calgary Region is the metropolitan area based around Calgary, Alberta. The borders of this area are defined differently for each of the Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) and the Calgary Region. The area is a major transportation hub for southern Alberta, Saskatchewan, eastern British Columbia, and parts of the northern United States. It is served by the Calgary International Airport, the fourth busiest airport in the country (by passenger movements). Unlike many major urbanized areas, Calgary developed as a "unicity" having incorporated most of its suburbs into the city proper. In the past, when the city limits reached the borders of neighbouring municipalities, they were simply annexed into the population of Calgary. Therefore, the vast majority of the region's population actually lives within the City of Calgary (proper) whose population, by approximation, likely reached 1,000,000 on July 25, 2006.
Calgarys Census Metropolitan Area The census metropolitan area is the definition Statistics Canada uses to determine the demographics of greater Calgary (this is the same for other large Canadian cities). The borders for Calgary's CMA are derived from those of Alberta Census Division No. 6. Municipalities within the CMA include the City of Airdrie, the Town of Cochrane, the Town of Chestermere, the Municipal District of Rocky View, and the village of Beisker. The CMA also includes a number of unincorporated districts such as Springbank and the Hamlet of Bragg Creek. The Calgary CMA is the 5th largest metropolitan area in the country and the largest in Alberta. In 2005, Statistics Canada estimated the population of the CMA to be 1,060,300. The land area of this region is 5,083 km². Calgary Regional Partnership The Calgary Region (economic region) is essentially represented by the Calgary Regional Partnership (CRP). The CRP is a cooperative of economically associated municipalities in the area. Since the CRP is an organization and not an area per se, not all of the municipalities within the sphere of what is effectively greater Calgary are members. Unlike the CMA, the Calgary Economic Region had an estimated population of 1,146,900 at August of 2005. The Calgary Regional Partnership includes the Municipal District of Rocky View, the City of Airdrie, the Town of Cochrane, the Town of Chestermere, Town of Okotoks, the Town of High River, and the Municipal District of Foothills. It also includes the Town of Canmore, and the Municipal District of Bighorn to the west and the Town of Strathmore to the east. The towns of Crossfield and Banff are recent additions to the CRP. Many of the communities of the CRP are also part of the Calgary Health Region. The population of the CRP is predicted to reach 1.2 million in 2008 and 1.3 million by 2013. Municipalities of greater Calgary Footnotes See also | ||||||||
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