Calgary () is a city in the western Canadian province of Alberta. It is situated at the confluence of the Bow River and the Elbow River in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, about east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies, roughly south of the provincial capital of Edmonton and approximately north of the Canada-United States border. The city anchors the south end of the Statistics Canada-defined urban area, the Calgary-Edmonton Corridor.