Grande Prairie, Alberta

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Grande Prairie is a city in Northern Alberta, Alberta, Canada within the southern portion of an area known as Peace River Country. It is located at the intersection of Alberta Highway 43 (part of the CANAMEX Corridor and Alberta Highway 40 (the Bighorn Highway), approximately 456 northwest of Edmonton. The city is surrounded by the County of Grande Prairie No. 1.

Grande Prairie is the seventh-largest city in Alberta with a population 55,032 recorded by the 2011 Census. It is the largest city between Edmonton and Fairbanks, Alaska.

The city adopted the trumpeter swan as an official symbol due to its proximity to the migration route and summer nesting grounds of this bird. For that reason, Grande Prairie is sometimes nicknamed the "Swan City". The dinosaur has emerged as an unofficial symbol of the city due to paleontology discoveries in the area west of the Grande Prairie.

NOTE: Due to the city's rapid growth, some streets/subdivisions already built may not be visible on the map.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_Prairie
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Coordinates:   55°9'37"N   118°48'51"W

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  • A very clean and beautiful city. Nature is very pristine and the lack of light pollution offers some incredible star watching and aurora borealis viewing opportunities.
  • Grande Prairie is a very wonderful city in Alberta.
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