The Province of Alberta currently has 253 urban municipalities including 19 cities, 105 towns, 78 villages and 51 summer villages.
[1] In addition, there are 106 communities that previously held some form of urban municipality status.
These include 2 former cities, 16 former towns, 2 former new towns, 85 former villages, and 1 former summer village.
These communities no longer exist as independent urban municipalities due to amalgamation, annexation or dissolution.