Metro Vancouver - Municipalities

Municipalities

Thirteen of the province's thirty most populous municipalities are located in Metro Vancouver. The official land area of the district is 2,877.36 square kilometres (1,111 sq mi). It is the most densely populated regional district in British Columbia.

The Regional District comprises the governments of 21 incorporated municipalities and one unincorporated area. The 21 municipalities are:

Municipality Type Population Year
Anmore Village 1,992 2007
Belcarra Village 701 2007
Bowen Island Island Municipality 3,551 2007
Burnaby City 216,336 2007
Coquitlam City 120,512 2007
Delta District Municipality 101,668 2007
Langley City 25,134 2007
Langley District Municipality 100,049 2007
Lions Bay Village 1,394 2007
Maple Ridge District Municipality 73,248 2007
New Westminster City 62,607 2007
North Vancouver City 47,463 2007
North Vancouver District Municipality 86,954 2007
Pitt Meadows City 16,757 2007
Port Coquitlam City 55,735 2007
Port Moody City 30,004 2007
Richmond City 186,628 2007
Surrey City 394,976 2007
Vancouver City 578,041 2007
West Vancouver District Municipality 44,097 2007
White Rock City 19,839 2007
Electoral Area A Unincorporated Area 19,252 2007
Greater Vancouver Regional District Regional District 2,249,725 2007

Abbotsford is a member for parks purposes only.

Greater Vancouver Regional District Electoral Area A comprises all unincorporated land within the Regional District boundaries, and includes the University of British Columbia, the University Endowment Lands, and residential areas and isolated dwellings on Howe Sound between Lions Bay and Horseshoe Bay, on Indian Arm to the north of Deep Cove and Belcarra/Anmore, and on the west side of Pitt Lake to the north of Port Coquitlam. Passage Island and Barnston Island in the Fraser River and are classified as Regional District Remainders.

There are also seventeen Indian reserves within the geographical area that are not subject to governance by the municipalities or the Regional District; they have a combined population of 7,550 (2006).

The cities of Abbotsford and Chilliwack and the district of Mission, located to the east, although often linked to Vancouver in promotions and tourism, are part of a separate regional district, the Fraser Valley Regional District, though part of the same region, the Lower Mainland. See Greater Vancouver for the larger geographic region meant by that term ("Metro Vancouver" refers only to the government of the regional district, and the regional district is not exactly coterminous with the region as such). Abbotsford participates in Metro Vancouver for parks purposes.

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