Grande Prairie can be described as one of the major cities located in north-western region of Alberta within Western Canada. This place has been surrounded by ‘Grande Prairie County’.
Grande Prairie has adopted endangered ‘Trumpeter swan’ as the official symbol as it adjoins ‘summer nesting grounds’ and ‘migration route’ of this graceful swan. Due to this reason, this city is, at times addressed as ‘Swan City’.
Grande Prairie is known to have ‘northern continental climate’; which is conventional to northeastern British Columbia and Alberta. Winters happen to be cold; followed by certain mild spells. Moreover, summer nights are also quite cool. The lowest temperature recorded as of now is -52 degree Celsius; whereas the highest one is 34.5 degree Celsius. Precipitation on an average comes out to be 317.7 millimeters.
As per civic census conducted in the year 2007, Grande Prairie’s population was 50227.
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