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Manitoba. / 55°N 97°W / 55; -97. Manitoba ( / ˌmænɪˈtoʊbə / ⓘ MAN-ih-TOH-bə) is a province of Canada at the longitudinal centre of the country. It is Canada's fifth-most populous province, with a population of 1,342,153 as of 2021. [2] Manitoba has a widely varied landscape, from arctic tundra and the Hudson Bay coastline in ...
International Peace Garden — a park located adjacent to the International Peace Garden Border Crossing between Manitoba and the U.S. state of North Dakota. Morden Research Station — an arboretum in Morden. Prairie Sentinels Park — a public park located in the centre of Deloraine.
49°23′59″N 96°02′07″W / . 49.399722°N 96.035278°W. / 49.399722; -96.035278. The Sandilands Provincial Forest is a forest located within the southeastern area of Manitoba, Canada, and consists of thousands of acres of sand hills, forest, wetlands, and mostly unpopulated crown lands. Sandilands Provincial Forest covers close to ...
Historical geography. Manitoba is bordered on the east by Ontario, on the south by North Dakota and Minnesota, on the west by Saskatchewan, and on the north by Nunavut. Northeast Manitoba follows the Hudson Bay shoreline. Churchill, on the Hudson Bay is the only port for the prairie provinces. The harbour serves as an open market for grain .
The province's largest and smallest towns by land area are Gillam and Lac du Bonnet with land areas of 1,996.34 km 2 (770.79 sq mi) and 2.15 km 2 (0.83 sq mi) respectively. [4] The province previously had 50 towns before a series of provincially mandated amalgamations took effect on January 1, 2015.
Rural Municipality of St. Andrews. / 50.27000°N 96.97472°W / 50.27000; -96.97472. St. Andrews is a rural municipality (RM) in Manitoba, Canada. It lies west of the Red River; its southern border is approximately 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) north of Winnipeg . The communities of Clandeboye, Petersfield, and Lockport (the part west of the Red ...
The Manitoba Farm Industry Board was established to administer and enforces the provincial Farm Lands Ownership Act, a statute that preserves farm land for Canadian use by limiting foreign interest in Manitoba farm land to 40 acres (160,000 m 2).
Northern Manitoba. Northern (Norman or Nor-Man) — this region was added to the province in 1912, and includes all land north of the 52nd parallel. [4] Churchill/Northern Manitoba (Division No. 23) Flin Flon/North West (Division No. 21) North East Manitoba, or North Eastman (Division No. 19) Thompson/North Central (Division No. 22)