Timmins, with a population of 42,997 (2006), is a city in northeastern Ontario, Canada on the Mattagami River. At 2,961.52 square kilometres (1,143 sq mi),
(Used to live there ...)
Timmins was Canada's largest municipality in land area until 1995, when the regional municipality of Wood Buffalo, Alberta was created, although it remained the largest municipality in Ontario until 2001, when it was superseded by the newly amalgamated cities of Kawartha Lakes and Greater Sudbury.
Sudbury is the largest city in Northern Ontario in population, and the 24th largest metropolitan area in Canada. In land area, it is now the largest city in Ontario, the seventh largest municipality in Canada, and the largest municipality in English Canada legally designated as a city.
Area - City 3,200 km² (1,235.5 sq mi)-- Elevation - 3475 m (1,140.1 ft)
Population (2006)[1] - City 157,857 - Density 9.3/km² (127.7/sq mi) - Urban 106,612 - Metro 158,258
Used to live there..
Not to be outdone.. Wood Buffalo, population 3 buffalo, and 2 people, (not attested) declared its area as follows..
Wood Buffalo, Alberta, Canada stretching from north-central Alberta to the borders of Saskatchewan on the east and Northwest Territories to the north, the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo ranks, by area, among the largest municipalities in North America. Covering 68,454 square kilometers (i.e. 26,430 square miles) of land area, the regional municipality encompasses both vast stretches of pristine wilderness and one of the fastest growing industrial communities in Canada. According to Wood Buffalo's 2005 Census population is 73,176, which includes the communities of Anzac, Conklin, Draper, Fort Chipewyan (Alberta's oldest community), Fort Fitzgerald, Fort Mackay, Fort McMurray, Gregoire Lakes Estates, Janvier, Mariana Lake, Saprae Creek and the work camps.
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-and- Used to live there too ... (Anzac)
P.S. Fahrt MacMurray, Alberta, drenched in the bitumen of the MacKenzie, is the most computerized city in Canada, and the largest city in Newfoundland.. It was also the site of a turn of the century alluvial gold rush...
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