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Manitoba

Manitoba
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About Manitoba

Manitoba is a province of Canada at the longitudinal centre of the country. It is Canada's fifth-most populous province, with a population estimated at 1,507,057 in 2025. Manitoba has a widely varied landscape, from arctic tundra and the Hudson Bay coastline in the north to dense boreal forest, large freshwater lakes, and prairie grassland in the central and southern regions. Manitoba's capital and largest city is Winnipeg.

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Manitoba is an area that has a hundred thousand of those lakes and only 10,000 of those lakes have been named as of 2017.

from 593: No Such Thing As A Barney The Dinosaur In Westminster Abbey, 2025-07-24 at 00:19:10 · read transcript

Other times Manitoba came up

  1. It made it illegal to lock your car if it was parked in public. It made it illegal. Is that so? Because I know that in Manitoba or somewhere that you're not supposed to lock your cars in case there's like a polar bear and someone can hide in the car. Bingo. Yeah. What it is is because there was so much traffic that was stopping people getting around because cars were taking off and cities weren't adapted for them.

    447: No Such Thing As A Rabbit-Cabbage Hybrid, 2022-10-07 · listen

  2. Okay. Illegal. What? Is that so, because I know that in, is it in Manitoba or somewhere, that you're not supposed to lock your cars in case there's like a polar bear and someone can hide in the car? Bingo. Yeah. No, it's, well, what it is is because there was so much. much traffic that was stopping people getting around because cars were taking off and cities weren't adaptive for them.

    No Such Thing As A Rabbit-Cabbage Hybrid, 2022-10-06 · listen

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Coordinates: 55.0000, -97.0000

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