Banff
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A town of southwest Alberta, Canada, in the Rocky Mountains near Lake Louise. It is a popular winter resort. Population: 6,700.
Banff (bămf, bănf), town (1991 pop. 5,688), SW Alta., Canada, in the Rocky Mts., on the Bow River and the Trans-Canada Highway. A tourist center and winter resort established in the 1880s by the Canadian Pacific Railway, it is the headquarters of Banff National Park and gateway to Lake Louise. The Banff Center for Continuing Education is a noted fine-arts center.
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Banff may refer to:
Places
In Canada:
- Banff, Alberta, a town in Alberta, Canada
- Banff Airport
- Banff railway station (Alberta)
- Banff National Park
- Banff (provincial electoral district)
- Banff-Cochrane, another provincial electoral district
- Banff Formation, a stratigraphical unit of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin
In the United Kingdom:
- Banff, Aberdeenshire, former royal burgh in Aberdeenshire (formerly Banffshire), Scotland
- Banff (whisky distillery), a distiller of malt whisky
- Banffshire (County of Banff) a traditional county
- Banffshire (UK Parliament constituency)
- Banff and Buchan, a modern committee area in Aberdeenshire
- Lord Banff, title in the Peerage of Scotland
- Banff railway station (Aberdeenshire) (originally known as Banff Harbour), a former (now closed) railway station of Banff
- Banff Bay, a coastal embayment in Scotland
See also
- Banff Trail, Calgary, a neighbourhood in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Banff Mountain Film Festival
- Banff World Television Festival
Similar spellings
- Bamff, Perthshire, Scotland
- BAMF (disambiguation)
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