| Number of records: | 28,386 |
|---|---|
| Last updated: | |
| Update frequency: | Quarterly (January, April, July and October) |
| Geographic coverage: | Full coverage of all thirteen provinces and territories in Canada |
| Data formats: | CSV, SQL, XLS |
| Language and Encoding: | en-CA, UTF-8 |
| Supply: | Direct online download (3.6MB zipped file) |
| Field | Example | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| ID | 99 | INTEGER | A unique numeric identifier for the populated place. |
| Name | Banff | TEXT(46) | The official name of the populated place. Please see the naming conventions for more information. |
| County | TEXT(36) | The county that the populated place falls in. Please note that counties only exist as an administrative entity in the provinces of British Columbia, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Prince Edward Island and Quebec. | |
| Province | Alberta | TEXT(25) | The full-length name of the province or territory which the populated place falls in. |
| Province code | AB | TEXT(2) | The 2 letter abbreviation for the province or territory as defined in ISO 3166-2. |
| Postcode area | T1L | TEXT(3) | The postcode forward sortation area (FSA) which the center point of the place falls in. |
| Type | Town | TEXT(19) | The type of populated place (as defined by the Geographical Names Board of Canada). The possible types are: City, Town, Village, Hamlet, Municipality and Unincorporated area. |
| Map reference | 082O04 | TEXT(6) | The National Topographic System 1:50,000 scale map sheet which the center point of the place falls in. |
| Latitude | 51.17778 | NUMERIC(8,5) | The WGS83 latitude coordinate for the center point of the populated place. |
| Longitude | -115.57361 | NUMERIC(8,5) | The WGS83 longitude coordinate for the center point of the populated place. |
| Census division | Division No. 15 | TEXT(36) | The full-length name of the 2011 census division (as defined by Statistics Canada) which the center point of the place falls in. |
| Area code | 587 | TEXT(3) | The telephone area code which the center point of the place falls in. |
| Time zone | America/Edmonton | TEXT(21) | The IANA timezone which the center point of the place falls in. |
All place names in the data follow a consistent naming convention. Specifically:
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