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Winnipeg

Also known as Winnipeg, Manitoba, City of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB

Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Manitoba. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers. , Winnipeg had a city population of 749,607 and a metropolitan population of 834,678, making it Canada's sixth-largest city and eighth-largest metropolitan area.

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Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada, located where the Red and Assiniboine rivers meet. With a city population of around 750,000 people, it ranks as Canada's sixth-largest city and serves as a major urban center in the country.

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Wikidata facts

Official name: City of Winnipeg
Demonym: Winnipegger
Population: 749607
Area: 448.92
Elevation: 238
Official website: winnipeg.ca
Image: Winnipeg skyline (2025).jpg
Dialing code: 431
Licence plate code: WPG
Motto: Unum Cum Virtute Multorum

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postal code: R2C
Commons gallery: Winnipeg
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The city is named after the nearby Lake Winnipeg; the name "Winnipeg" comes from the Western Cree words for "muddy water" – . The region was a trading centre for Indigenous peoples long before the arrival of Europeans; it is the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe (Ojibway), Ininew (Cree), Oji-Cree, Dene, and Dakota, and is the birthplace of the Métis Nation. French traders built the first fort, Fort Rouge, on the site in 1738. A settlement was later founded by the Selkirk settlers of the Red River Colony in 1812, the nucleus of which was incorporated as the City of Winnipeg in 1873. Being far inland, the city's climate is extremely seasonal (continental) even by Canadian standards, with average January highs of around and average July highs of .