Canada had 1,137 municipalities that held
city,
town or
ville[a] status as of 2011.[1] This list presents the 100 largest of these municipalities by land area in square kilometres at the time of the
2011 census.[2]
The geographically massive cities in
Quebec – three of them larger than the entire province of
Prince Edward Island – were created in the 1990s, when the provincial government added some vast
unorganized areas (territoires non organisés) into self-governing municipalities, centred on a single dominant urban centre and surrounded by extensive tracts of forest and sparsely populated expanses.
The geographically massive cities in
Ontario were created in the 1990s, when the provincial government converted some
counties and
regional municipalities into self-governing rural
single-tier municipalities, centred on a single dominant urban centre and what were formerly its
suburbs and relatively nearby
satellite towns and villages, including large tracts of rural land. (This article uses loose imprecise translation of “Ville” and the first 4 on the list are “Municipalities” and not “Cities”)
^According to Statistics Canada, both "city" and "town" can translate to "ville" in French.[1] Thus, those municipalities in Quebec holding "ville" status are considered equivalents of cities or towns for the purpose of this list.
Canada had 1,137 municipalities that held
city,
town or
ville[a] status as of 2011.[1] This list presents the 100 largest of these municipalities by land area in square kilometres at the time of the
2011 census.[2]
The geographically massive cities in
Quebec – three of them larger than the entire province of
Prince Edward Island – were created in the 1990s, when the provincial government added some vast
unorganized areas (territoires non organisés) into self-governing municipalities, centred on a single dominant urban centre and surrounded by extensive tracts of forest and sparsely populated expanses.
The geographically massive cities in
Ontario were created in the 1990s, when the provincial government converted some
counties and
regional municipalities into self-governing rural
single-tier municipalities, centred on a single dominant urban centre and what were formerly its
suburbs and relatively nearby
satellite towns and villages, including large tracts of rural land. (This article uses loose imprecise translation of “Ville” and the first 4 on the list are “Municipalities” and not “Cities”)
^According to Statistics Canada, both "city" and "town" can translate to "ville" in French.[1] Thus, those municipalities in Quebec holding "ville" status are considered equivalents of cities or towns for the purpose of this list.