Prince County, Prince Edward Island

Prince County is located in western Prince Edward Island, Canada. The county's defining geographic feature is Malpeque Bay, a sub-basin of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, which creates the narrowest portion of Prince Edward Island's landmass, an isthmus upon which the city of Summerside is located.

The geographic division created by Malpeque Bay is informally augmented by a socio-economic division between the more urban East Prince and rural West Prince, although the line of division generally varies. Much of Prince Edward Island's industrial base is concentrated in the eastern part of the county, with three large frozen French fry manufacturing plants, a potato chip manufacturing plant, and an aerospace industry located at a former air force base. Industrial farming for root crops such as potatoes accounts for the majority of rural economic activity, followed by fishing for shellfish such as lobster and crab.

The county was named by Capt. Samuel Holland in 1765 for George, Prince of Wales, who would later become King George IV (1762–1830). As such, Prince County's shire town was designated as Princetown, but the inferior harbour for Prince Royalty saw the settlement pattern change to give this honour to Summerside.

Demographics
As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Prince County had a population of $46,234$ living in $19,660$ of its $22,776$ total private dwellings, a change of NaN% from its 2016 population of $43,910$. With a land area of 2006.27 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.

Airports
Summerside-Slemon Park Airport

Places

 * Cities
 * Summerside
 * Towns
 * Alberton
 * Borden-Carleton
 * Kensington
 * O'Leary
 * Tignish
 * Municipalities
 * Abrams Village
 * Bedeque and Area
 * Central Prince
 * Elmsdale
 * Greenmount-Montrose
 * Kinkora
 * Linkletter
 * Lot 11 and Area
 * Malpeque Bay
 * Miminegash
 * Miscouche
 * Sherbrooke
 * St. Felix
 * St. Louis
 * Tignish Shore
 * Tyne Valley
 * Wellington
 * Unincorporated communities
 * Albany
 * Augustine Cove
 * Belmont
 * Port Hill
 * Days Corner
 * Richmond
 * Union Corner
 * Indian reserves
 * Lennox Island 1