Every City in Alberta on the Map

I decided to cut 254 hamlets with a population of less than 100. A lot of these are just groups of farmhouses. The definition of a hamlet is really odd. Fort McMurray is an urban service area, but technically a hamlet. Hamlets are generally small communities with services akin to villages, but also include wealthy urban developments (aka bedroom communities) usually all wealthy homes with no services, or they may be 'summer villages'/lakeside resort areas where people live long term (usually in the north). Some were essentially neighbourhoods that happened to fall outside of their city limits, so I have cut those ones as well.

Despite how condensed the map may look, distances are huge between cities. I live in Lethbridge in the south, and to drive to Taber directly eastbound takes half an hour, even though they touch on the map. Likewise, it takes 1.5 hours to drive to Medicine Hat, 2 hours to Calgary and 5 hours to Edmonton. The reality is that most of Alberta feels extremely open and massive.