"The Prairies" redirects here. For other uses, see Prairie (disambiguation).
Region of Western Canada
Canadian Prairies
Prairies canadiennes (French)
Ecoregion
Farm on the prairies near Hartney, Manitoba
Map of the Prairie Provinces
Location
Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba in Canada
Area
• Total
1,780,650.6 km2 (687,513.0 sq mi)[1]
Highest elevation
3,747 m (12,293 ft)
The Canadian Prairies (usually referred to as simply the Prairies in Canada) is a region in Western Canada. It includes the Canadian portion of the Great Plains and the Prairie provinces, namely Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba.[2] These provinces are partially covered by grasslands, plains, and lowlands, mostly in the southern regions. The northernmost reaches of the Canadian Prairies are less dense in population, marked by forests and more variable topography.[3] If the region is defined to include areas only covered by prairie land, the corresponding region is known as the Interior Plains.[4] Physical or ecological aspects of the Canadian Prairies extend to northeastern British Columbia, but that area is not included in political use of the term.[5]
The prairies in Canada are a temperate grassland and shrubland biome within the prairie ecoregion of Canada that consists of northern mixed grasslands in Alberta, Saskatchewan, southern Manitoba, as well as northern short grasslands in southeastern Alberta and southwestern Saskatchewan.[6] The Prairies Ecozone of Canada includes the northern tall grasslands in southern Manitoba and Aspen parkland, which covers central Alberta, central Saskatchewan, and southern Manitoba.[7] The Prairie starts from north of Edmonton and it covers the three provinces in a southward-slanting line east to the Manitoba–Minnesota border.[8] Alberta has the most land classified as prairie, while Manitoba has the least, as the boreal forest begins more southerly in Manitoba than in Alberta.[9]
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^McGinn, Sean (2010). Shorthouse, Joseph; Floate, Kevin (eds.). Weather and Climate Patterns in Canada's Prairies(PDF). Vol. 1. pp. 105–119. doi:10.3752/9780968932148. ISBN 9780968932148.
^McCullough, J.J. "The Prairies". The Canada Guide. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
^"Prairies Ecozone". www.ecozones.ca.
^Chepkemoi, Joyce (25 April 2017). "Facts About the Canadian Prairie Provinces". WorldAtlas. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
^Quiring, S. M; Papakryiakou, T. N. (2003). "An evaluation of agricultural drought indices for the Canadian prairies". Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 118 (1–2): 49–62. Bibcode:2003AgFM..118...49Q. doi:10.1016/S0168-1923(03)00072-8.
^"Prairies Ecozone". Ecological Framework of Canada. Government of Canada. Archived from the original on 2 June 2016.
^"Wide open spaces, but for how long?". The Royal Canadian Geographical Society. The Royal Canadian Geographical Society. 16 October 2014. Archived from the original on 3 April 2016.
^Quiring, S. M; Papakryiakou, T. N. (2003). "An evaluation of agricultural drought indices for the Canadian prairies". Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 118 (1–2): 49–62. Bibcode:2003AgFM..118...49Q. doi:10.1016/S0168-1923(03)00072-8.
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