Macklin is a

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Saskatchewan Saskatchewan ( ; ) is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Western Canada, western Canada, bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and on t ...

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. The population was 1,247 at the

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. The town is located on Highway 14 and

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about east of the provincial border with

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, and is situated near one of the most productive oil and natural gas producing fields in the

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. Among its many attractions, it is the host of the annual

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World Championship, during which the town population doubles in size.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by

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, Macklin had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.

Notable people

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, cyclist *

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, painter

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* Eye Hill No. 382, Saskatchewan Towns in Saskatchewan Division No. 13, Saskatchewan {{SKDivision13-geo-stub

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