The Canadian Prairies is a region in Western Canada. It includes the Canadian portion of the Great Plains and the Prairie provinces, namely Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. 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. If the region is defined to include areas only covered by prairie land, the corresponding region is known as the Interior Plains. 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.
Farm on the prairies near Hartney, Manitoba
Gimli, Manitoba, is on Lake Winnipeg, a very large fresh water lake in the eastern prairies.
A canola field in the Qu'Appelle Valley in Southern Saskatchewan.
The Alberta badlands
Western Canada, also referred to as the Western provinces, Canadian West or the Western provinces of Canada, and commonly known within Canada as the West, is a Canadian region that includes the four western provinces just north of the Canada–United States border namely British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The people of the region are often referred to as "Western Canadians" or "Westerners", and though diverse from province to province are largely seen as being collectively distinct from other Canadians along cultural, linguistic, socioeconomic, geographic and political lines. They account for approximately 32% of Canada's total population.
Calgary is the largest municipality by population in western Canada.
View of Edmonton's central business district in 2018
Centred on the intersection of Portage and Main, Downtown Winnipeg is the city's central business district.
Badlands in Southern Saskatchewan