List of regional districts in British Columbia
British Columbia is divided into 29 regional districts. The area and population in the table below refer to the respective Statistics Canada census .
| No. | District | Area km² |
Residents 2016 |
Residents 2011 |
main place |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alberni-Clayoquot | 6,588.48 | 30,981 | 31,061 | Port Alberni |
| 2 | Bulkley nechaco | 73,360.94 | 37,896 | 39.208 | Burns Lake |
| 3 | Capital | 2,340.80 | 383,360 | 359.991 | Victoria |
| 4th | Cariboo | 80,609.45 | 61,988 | 62,392 | Williams Lake |
| 5 | Central Coast | 24,491.85 | 3,319 | 3,206 | Bella Coola |
| 6th | Central Kootenay | 22,094.94 | 59,517 | 58,441 | Nelson |
| 7th | Central Okanagan | 2,904.86 | 194.822 | 179839 | Kelowna |
| 8th | Columbia Shuswap | 28,929.13 | 51,366 | 50,512 | Salmon arm |
| 9 | Comox Valley | 1,700.58 | 66,527 | 63,538 | Courtenay |
| 10 | Cowichan Valley | 3,474.55 | 83,739 | 80,332 | Duncan |
| 11 | East Kootenay | 27,542.69 | 60,439 | 56,685 | Cranbrook |
| 12 | Fraser Valley | 13,335.28 | 295.934 | 277,593 | Chilliwack |
| 13 | Fraser Fort George | 50,676.30 | 94.506 | 91,879 | Prince George |
| 14th | Metro Vancouver | 2,882.55 | 2,463,431 | 2,313,328 | Burnaby |
| 15th | Kitimat stikine | 104,461.18 | 37,367 | 37,361 | Terrace |
| 16 | Kootenay Boundary | 8,081.92 | 31,447 | 31,138 | Trail |
| 17th | Mount Waddington | 20,244.26 | 11,035 | 11,506 | Port McNeill |
| 18th | Nanaimo | 2,038.01 | 155,698 | 146,574 | Nanaimo |
| 19th | North Okanagan | 7,502.60 | 84,354 | 81,237 | Coldstream |
| 20th | Northern Rockies | 85,111.07 | 5,393 | 5,578 | Fort Nelson |
| 21st | Okanagan similkameen | 10,414.26 | 83,022 | 80,742 | Penticton |
| 22nd | Peace River | 117,391.38 | 62,942 | 60,082 | Dawson Creek |
| 23 | qathet | 5,075.33 | 20,070 | 19.906 | Powell River |
| 24 | North Coast | 19,781.46 | 18,133 | 18,784 | Prince Rupert |
| 25th | Squamish Lillooet | 16,310.42 | 42,665 | 38.171 | Pemberton |
| 26th | Stikine | 118,663.10 | 740 | 629 | - |
| 27 | Strathcona | 18,277.87 | 44,671 | 43,252 | Campbell River |
| 28 | Sunshine Coast | 3,776.62 | 29.9710 | 28,619 | Sechelt |
| 29 | Thompson-Nicola | 44,447.71 | 132,663 | 128,473 | Kamloops |
The largest changes in population (percentage) occurred in the Stikine Region regional district , which had a population increase of 17.6%, and the Regional District of Mount Waddington , which lost 4.1% of its population.
Changes
- Dissolution of the Dewdney-Alouette Regional District - split into the Greater Vancouver Regional District ( Maple Ridge , Pitt Folder , Pitt Meadows ) and the new Fraser Valley Regional District (remainder) (December 12, 1995)
- Formation of the Fraser Valley Regional District from parts of the Dewdey-Alouette Regional District as well as from the dissolved Central Fraser Valley and Fraser-Cheam regional districts (December 12, 1995)
- Formation of the regional districts Comox Valley and Strathcona from the dissolved Comox-Strathcona Regional District (February 15, 2008)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Census Boundaries. Government of British Columbia, accessed June 19, 2020 (maps refer to Census).
- ^ Population Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and census divisions, 2016 and 2011 censuses. August 28, 2017, accessed September 18, 2017 .
- ^ Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and census divisions, 2011 and 2006 censuses. August 9, 2016, accessed September 18, 2017 .
