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Descriptor English: Alberta
Descriptor Spanish: Alberta
Descriptor Alberta
Scope note: Provincia occidental de Canadá, ubicada entre las provincias de la Columbia Británica y Saskatchewan. Su capital es Edmonton. Se denominó así en honor de la princesa Louise Caroline Alberta, la cuarta hija de la reina Victoria. (Traducción libre del original: Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p26 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p12)
Descriptor Portuguese: Alberta
Descriptor French: Alberta
Tree number(s): Z01.107.567.176.064
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000416
Scope note: A province of western Canada, lying between the provinces of British Columbia and Saskatchewan. Its capital is Edmonton. It was named in honor of Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p26 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p12)
Annotation: a province of Canada
Allowable Qualifiers: EH ethnology
EP epidemiology
DeCS ID: 419
Unique ID: D000416
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 1995/02/17
Alberta - Preferred
Concept UI M0000627
Scope note A province of western Canada, lying between the provinces of British Columbia and Saskatchewan. Its capital is Edmonton. It was named in honor of Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p26 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p12)
Preferred term Alberta



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