List of municipalities in Manitoba

Manitoba is the fifth most populous province in Canada with 1,342,153 residents as of 2021 and is the sixth largest in land area at 540,310 km2 (208,610 sq mi).

[1] Manitoba's 137 municipalities[2] cover only 21% of the province's land mass yet are home to 95% of its population.

[4][5] Additional charters or acts are in place specifically for the cities of Brandon, Flin Flon, Portage la Prairie, Thompson and Winnipeg, the towns of Morris and Winnipeg Beach, and the rural municipalities of Kelsey, St. Andrews and Victoria Beach.

[3] Manitoba's smallest municipality by population is the Local Government District of Mystery Lake with 0 residents.

[3] The largest municipality by land area is the Rural Municipality (RM) of Reynolds at 3,559.65 km2 (1,374.39 sq mi), while the smallest by land area is the Village of Arborg at 2.22 km2 (0.86 sq mi).

[4] Combined, Manitoba has 37 urban municipalities comprising 10 cities, 25 towns and 2 villages.

[3] Of Manitoba's 37 urban municipalities, 6 have populations less than the current minimum population requirement of 1,000 and 20 have less than the current minimum density requirement of 400 residents per square kilometre.

[3] These 10 cities include Flin Flon, of which a small portion is located within the neighbouring province of Saskatchewan.

[3] The province's largest and smallest rural municipalities by area the RM of Reynolds and the Victoria Beach with land areas of 3,559.65 km2 (1,374.39 sq mi) and 20.71 km2 (8.00 sq mi) respectively.

[20] Manitoba's Local Government Districts Act, enacted in 1987, defines a local government district (LGD) as "an area or areas that is or are wholly or partly in unorganized territory or in a disorganized municipality" with inhabitants.

LGDs are incorporated by Manitoba's Lieutenant Governor in Council through passage of a regulation.