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Calgary, Canada
 Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada.
It is located in the south of the province, in an area
of foothills and prairie, approximately 80 km east of
the front ranges of the Canadian Rockets. The city
is located in the Grassland region of Alberta.
 In 2006, the City of Calgary had a population of
988,193 making it the third-largest Municipality in
the country and largest in Alberta. The entire
metropolitan area had a 2006 population of
1,079,310, making it the fifth-0largest cencus  Calgary maintains a major
metropolitan area (CMA) in Canada. In 2009,
Calgary’s metropolitan population was estimated at
1,230,248, raising its rank to fourth-largest CMA in
Canada.
 Economic activity in Calgary is
mostly centered on the
petroleum industry, agriculture,
and tourism. In 1988, Calgary
became the first Canadian city
to host the Olympic Games.
streets network and a freeway
system. Much of the system is
on a grid where roads are
numbered with avenues
running east-west and streets
running north-south.
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 Roads in predominantly residential areas as well as
freeways and expressways do not generally conform to
the grid and are usually not numbered as a result.

 However, it is developer and city convention in Calgary

that non-numbered streets within a new community
have the same name prefix as the community itself so
that street can more easily be located within the city.

 Calgary Transit provides public transportation services

throughout the city with buses and light rail. Calgary’s
rail system, known as the C-train was one of the first
such systems in the North Asmerica.

 The city is large in physical area, consisting of an inner

city surrounded by communities of various density.
Unlike most cities with a sizeable metropolitan area,
most of Calgary’s suburbs are incorporated into the city
proper.