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Originally Posted by wild wild west
The stat that gets me even more agitated (and I have actually heard experienced professional planners buy into it) is the one that Calgary covers the biggest land area of any municipality in North America - not just wrong, but severely wrong!
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When I was hired at U of C, this was among the "Facts about Calgary" I got with housing info and such. "Calgary is the largest city, in area, in Canada!"
This was never close to correct, and as long as we're talking municipal boundaries, Ottawa is nearly triple the "area" of Calgary now- and it's the new municipality of Halifax larger as well? (yep- 5490 sq km! Now THAT is sprawling!)
There are dozens of cities in the US that are larger in area than Calgary, too.