Terms
Statistics Canada uses a variety of terms to designate regions in Canada for statistical purposes:
- Census Agglomeration: Metropolitan areas where the core city is greater than 10,000 but smaller than 100,000 people
- Census Metropolitan Area: Metropolitan areas where the core city is greater than 100,000 people
- Census division: Collection of census subdivisions
- Census subdivision: Cities, towns, municipalities, etc.
- City
- Chartered community: found in the Northwest Territories
- County municipality: rural territories in Alberta
- Community: villages in Prince Edward Island
- Canton: Townships in Quebec
- United cantons: Townships which have been united in Quebec
- District municipality: Rural or urban territories of British Columbia
- Hamlet: Small communities in the territories
- Improvement district: Rural territories in Alberta
- Indian government district: found in British Columbia
- Inuit land: found in Quebec
- Island municipality
- Local government district: found in Manitoba
- Municipality: Rural territories in Quebec
- Municipal district: Rural territories in Alberta and Nova Scotia
- Northern hamlet: found in Saskatchewan
- Nisga'a land
- Northern village: found in Saskatchewan and Quebec (Village nordique)
- Nisga'a village: found in British Columbia
- Parish: rural territories in Quebec (Parish municipalities) and New Brunswick
- Indian reserve
- Rural community
- Regional district electoral area: Unorganized rural areas in British Columbia
- Region
- Regional municipality: At the CSD level, an amalgamation of a large region. Found in Alberta and Nova Scotia
- Rural municipality: rural territories in Manitoba and Saskatchewan
- Resort village: found in Saskatchewan
- Indian settlement
- Special area: rural territories in Alberta
- Subdivision of county municipality: rural territories of Alberta
- Settlement: small communities in the territories
- Subdivision of unorganized: unorganized rural territories of Newfoundland and Labrador
- Summer village: found in Alberta
- Town
- Township: At the CSD level, only in Ontario
- Township and royalty: Rural territories in Prince Edward Island
- Teslin land
- Reserve lands: found in Quebec
- Unorganized area
- Ville: cities and towns in Quebec
- Cree village: found in Quebec
- Naksapi village
- Village
- Urban area
- Designated place
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