South Saskatchewan Region

The South Saskatchewan Region is a land-use framework region in southern Alberta, Canada. One of seven in the province, each is intended to develop and implement a regional plan, complementing the planning efforts of member municipalities in order to coordinate future growth. Corresponding roughly to major watersheds while following municipal boundaries, these regions are managed by Alberta Environment and Parks.^[1]

As it includes the Calgary Metropolitan Region, the largest urban area in Alberta, the South Saskatchewan Region has the highest population of any Alberta land-use region.

South Saskatchewan Region
Land-use framework region
Waterton Lakes National Park
Location in Alberta
Largest population centres	Calgary Lethbridge Medicine Hat
Government
• Parent authority	Alberta Environment and Parks
Area [2]
• Total	83,774 km2 (32,345 sq mi)
Population  (2016)[3]
• Total	1,814,190
• Density	22/km2 (56/sq mi)

Communities

The following municipalities are contained in the South Saskatchewan Region.

Cities Airdrie Brooks Calgary Chestermere Lethbridge Medicine Hat Towns Bassano Black Diamond Bow Island Canmore Cardston Claresholm Coaldale Coalhurst Cochrane Crossfield Fort Macleod Granum High River Irricana Magrath Milk River Nanton Nobleford Okotoks Picture Butte Pincher Creek Raymond Redcliff Stavely

Towns (continued) Strathmore Taber Turner Valley Vauxhall Vulcan Villages Arrowwood Barnwell Barons Beiseker Carmangay Champion Coutts Cowley Duchess Foremost Glenwood Hill Spring Hussar Lomond Longview Milo Rockyford Rosemary Standard Stirling Warner Summer villages Ghost Lake Waiparous

Municipal districts Municipal District of Bighorn Cardston County Cypress County Foothills County County of Forty Mile Lethbridge County County of Newell Municipal District of Pincher Creek Municipal District of Ranchland Rocky View County Municipal District of Taber Vulcan County County of Warner No. 5 Wheatland County Municipal District of Willow Creek Specialized municipalities Crowsnest Pass Improvement districts Improvement District No. 4 (Waterton) Kananaskis Improvement District Indian reserves Blood 148 Blood 148A Eden Valley 216 Piikani 147 Peigan Timber Limit B Siksika 146 Stoney 142, 143, 144 Stoney 142B Tsuu T'ina 145