SASKATCHEWAN COMMUNITIES

SASKATCHEWAN is one of the three prairie provinces in Canada. (map) It is the fifth largest province with over a million people (1,023,810 provincial estimate January 2009). Most of the people live in the southern part of the province.

In Saskatchewan, a community must have a population of 5,000 or more to get city status. As of September 2009 there are now 15 cities in Saskatchewan, 145 towns, 266 villages, 40 resort villages, 296 rural municipalities, two northern towns, 11 northern villages and 12 northern hamlets.

The links below contain the following information :

• cities - population and location
• a brief history of each city and how each was named;
  the year each became a village, a town, and a city
• links to other sites with information about the cities
• chart with population, year of incorporation, industries
  and services of each city

CITIES map

CITIES history

CITIES links

CITIES chart

SASK index

main URL WEB PAGES FOR STUDENTS
For community profiles, go to Saskbiz.ca

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J.Giannettta
Regina, Sask.
March/03 (updated September 2009)
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