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A town is a type of incorporated urban municipality in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. [1] A resort village or a village can be incorporated as a town by the Minister of Municipal Affairs via section 52 of The Municipalities Act if: Requested by the council of the resort village or village; and
In the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, a city is a type of incorporated urban municipality [1] that is created from a town by the minister of municipal affairs. The city form of governmental organization is created by a ministerial order via section 39 of The Cities Act if the town has a population of 5,000 or more and if the change in status is requested by the town council.
In Saskatchewan, towns must have a population above 5,000 in order to be granted city status. [3] A city does not automatically revert to town status if the population drops below 5,000; this only occurs if the city council requests it, the majority of electors vote to revert to town status or the appropriate provincial minister is of the opinion that the reversion to town status is in the ...
Saskatchewan's 16 cities had a cumulative population of 689,475 in the 2021 Census. [3] Saskatchewan's largest and smallest cities are Saskatoon and Melville with populations of 266,141 and 4,493. [3] The largest and smallest city by land area are Saskatoon and Meadow Lake with 226.56 km 2 (87.48 sq mi) and 12.37 km 2 (4.78 sq mi). [3]
A topographic map of Saskatchewan, showing cities, towns, rural municipality borders, and natural features. Saskatchewan is the only province without a natural border. As its borders follow geographic lines of longitude and latitude, the province is roughly a quadrilateral, or a shape with four sides.
The province of Saskatchewan, Canada is divided into 18 census divisions according to Statistics Canada. Unlike in some other provinces, census divisions do not reflect the organization of local government in Saskatchewan. These areas exist solely for the purposes of statistical analysis and presentation; they have no government of their own.
Saskatchewan's largest village is Caronport with a population of 994, while Ernfold, Keeler, Krydor, Valparaiso and Waldron are the province's smallest villages with populations of 15 each. [3] A village council may request the Minister of Municipal Affairs to change its status to a town if the village has a population of 500 or more.
A population centre, in Canadian census data, is a populated place, or a cluster of interrelated populated places, which meets the demographic characteristics of an urban area, having a population of at least 1,000 people and a population density of no fewer than 400 persons per square km 2.