Brandon is a city on the Assiniboine River in southwestern Manitoba, Canada, 197 kilometers west of Winnipeg, with a population of 51,313 at the 2021 census. It was established in 1881 when the Canadian Pacific Railway selected the site, taking its name from the nearby fur-trade post of Brandon House, and was incorporated as a city the following year in 1882; it is Manitoba's second-largest city and serves as the economic hub of the province's southwestern region.
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1. GeoNames: Brandon
GeoNames geonameid 5907896 (Brandon), cities500/allCountries bulk dump, matched by primary name + country + coordinates within 25km (w-bbfill-geography6-0926)View the Source 2. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 49.75, -99.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 49.75, -99.75
49.75 -99.75 Dfb
3. GeoNames: Brandon - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 5907896, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)Quote, cities500 record 5907896, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
49.84692 -99.95306 P PPL CA 03 48859 383 America/Winnipeg
Brandon (Wikipedia)
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