Premise: Manitoba ( [ mænᵻˈtoʊbə ] ) is a province at the longitudinal centre of Canada . It is one of the three prairie provinces ( with Alberta and Saskatchewan ) and Canada 's fifth-most populous province with its estimated 1.3 million people . The province is bordered by the provinces of Ontario to the east and Saskatchewan to the west , the territories of Nunavut to the north , and Northwest Territories to the northwest , and the US states of North Dakota and Minnesota to the south . Aboriginal peoples have inhabited what is now Manitoba for thousands of years . Manitoba 's capital and largest city , Winnipeg , is the eighth-largest census metropolitan area in Canada .
Hypothesis: Manitoba is an area.
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