Southern Manitoba

Southern Manitoba is the southernmost area of the Canadian province of Manitoba. Southern Manitoba encompasses the Winnipeg Metropolitan Area, Red River Valley, Pembina Valley, Central Plains, Westman and Eastman. It holds just slightly over one million people. Seven out of Manitoba's ten cities are located here- notably its capital city- Winnipeg, as well as Selkirk, Brandon, Portage La Prairie, Morden, Winkler, and Steinbach.

Southern Manitoba provides water corridors for the Red, Souris River and Assiniboine River. Natural vegetation ranges from prairie grassland to aspen, and boreal forest in the Whiteshell Provincial Park in southeast Manitoba. At Spruce Woods Provincial Park, near Carberry, Manitoba a remnant of a sandy delta of the Assiniboine River created a rare Canadian desert area with sand dunes and cacti. Manitoba's most fertile farmlands correspond to the rich black soils found along the Red River Valley and southwestern Manitoba. Petroleum fields of the Williston Basin in North Dakota extend into the southwestern part of the province up to Virden, Manitoba.