Manitoba Information

Central Canada.

GMT - 6 (GMT - 5 from second Sunday in March to first Sunday in November).

552,370 sq km (213,271 sq miles).

1.1 million (2006).

2 per sq km.

Winnipeg. Population: 678,554 (2008).

Manitoba is bordered by the US states of North Dakota and Minnesota to the south, Saskatchewan to the west, Ontario to the east, and the Northwest Territories and Nunavut to the north. It is the easternmost of Canada's three Prairie Provinces, and also known as Heartland Canada as well as the ‘Land of 100,000 Lakes'. The landscape is diverse, ranging from rolling farmland to sandy beaches on the shores of Lake Winnipeg, and from the desert landscape in a small corner of the south to northern parkland covered by lakes, forests and sub-Arctic tundra.

Canada is officially bilingual (English and French). While English is commonly spoken in Manitoba, the province has one of Canada's largest French-speaking communities outside Québec.