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Winnipeg ( / ˈwɪnɪpɛɡ / ⓘ) is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. As of 2021, Winnipeg had a city population of 749,607 and a metropolitan population of 834,678, making it Canada's sixth ...
The Winnipeg Metropolitan Region [5] (formerly called the Winnipeg Capital Region and the Manitoba Capital Region) [6] is a metropolitan area in the Canadian province of Manitoba located in the Red River Valley in the southeast portion of the province of Manitoba, Canada. It contains the provincial capital of Winnipeg and 17 surrounding rural ...
List of neighbourhoods in Winnipeg This is a list of neighbourhoods in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. There are 236-237 neighbourhoods in Winnipeg. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Area codes 204, 431, and 584 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the Canadian province of Manitoba. Area code 204 is one of the nine original North American area codes assigned to Canada in 1947. Area codes 431 and 584 were assigned to the same numbering plan area (NPA) in 2012 and 2022, respectively, forming an overlay complex .
Winnipeg has three major rivers: the Red River, the Assiniboine River, and the Seine River. The Red River is a Canadian heritage river. [4] Because of Winnipeg's extremely flat topography and substantial snowfall, Winnipeg is subject to severe flooding. The Red River reached its greatest flood height in 1826.
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth visiting Winnipeg, as a part of the 1939 royal tour of Canada. The history of Winnipeg comprises its initial population of Aboriginal peoples through its settlement by Europeans to the present day. The first forts were built on the future site of Winnipeg in the 1700s, followed by the Selkirk Settlement in 1812.
Such designations can be ambiguous; for example, "CST" can mean China Standard Time (UTC+8), Cuba Standard Time (UTC−5), and (North American) Central Standard Time (UTC−6), and it is also a widely used variant of ACST ( Australian Central Standard Time, UTC+9:30).
In 1971, Saint-Boniface was amalgamated, along with several neighbouring communities, into the City of Winnipeg. [8] [9] As one of the largest French-Canadian communities outside Québec, it has often been a centre of struggles to preserve French-Canadian language and culture within Manitoba.