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With a population of 568,322 (2021), Surrey is the second-most populated city in Metro Vancouver. Burnaby is the third-most populated city in Metro Vancouver with a population of 249,125 (2021). This regional district comprises 23 local authorities as members: 21 municipalities, one electoral area and one treaty First Nation.
Greater Vancouver, also known as Metro Vancouver, is the metropolitan area with its major urban centre being the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.The term "Greater Vancouver" describes an area that is roughly coterminous with the region governed by the Metro Vancouver Regional District (MVRD), though it predates the 1966 creation of the regional district.
Hence, the term visible minority is used here in contrast to the overall Canadian population which remains predominantly of European descent. In Metro Vancouver, at the 2021 census, 54.5% of the population were members of non-European ethnic groups, 43.1% were members of European ethnic groups, and 2.4% of the population identified as Indigenous.
The table below lists the 100 largest census subdivisions (municipalities or municipal equivalents) in Canada by population, using data from the 2021 Canadian census for census subdivisions. [1] This list includes only the population within a census subdivision's boundaries as defined at the time of the census.
The Tri-Cities within the GVRD. The Tri-Cities are an informal grouping of the three adjacent suburban cities of Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, and Port Moody, along with the two villages of Anmore and Belcarra in the northeast sector of Metro Vancouver in British Columbia. [1] [2] Combined, these five communities had a population of 246,701 ...
The Lower Mainland includes large irreligious, Christian, and Sikh communities. The Sikh population, numbering over 265,000 persons or 9.1 percent of the total population is statistically significant across Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley; proportionally, it is more than four times the national average of 2.1 percent.
Coquitlam (/ k oʊ ˈ k w ɪ t l ə m / ⓘ koh-KWIT-ləm) [7] is a city in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada.Mainly suburban, Coquitlam is the sixth-largest city in the province, with a population of 148,625 in 2021, [4] and one of the 21 municipalities comprising Metro Vancouver.
Whalley is the most densely populated and urban of the six town centres in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada.It encompasses City Centre, the city's central business district, and is home to the Surrey City Hall, the main branch of Surrey Libraries, Central City, SFU Surrey [4] and the site of Kwantlen Polytechnic University's (KPU) Civic Plaza campus. [5]