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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.
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. Greater Vancouver has more interracial couples than Canada's two largest cities, Toronto and Montreal.
Most populous municipality: Toronto, Ontario, 2,794,356 [1] Highest percentage increase in population from 2016: Kapawe'no First Nation 229, Alberta, 1,840.0% [1] This geographic area underwent a boundary change since the 2016 Census that resulted in an adjustment to the 2016 population and/or dwelling counts for this area.
Greater Vancouver, along with the Fraser Valley, comprises the Lower Mainland with a regional population of over 3 million. Vancouver has the highest population density in Canada, with over 5,700 inhabitants per square kilometre (15,000/sq mi), [6] and the fourth highest in North America (after New York City, San Francisco, and Mexico City).
The main driver of population growth is immigration, [8] [9] with 6.2% of the country's population being made up of temporary residents as of 2023, [10] or about 2.5 million people. [11] Between 2011 and May 2016, Canada's population grew by 1.7 million people, with immigrants accounting for two-thirds of the increase.
In order for a municipality to be classified as a district municipality, its geographic area must be greater than 800 hectares (2,000 acres) and its population density must be lower than 5 residents per hectare (or 500/km 2); there is no population requirement. [4]
Montreal, population 3,500,000 and Vancouver, metro population 2,300,000 have become poles of attraction based on manufacturing and transportation. Montreal - stagnation: The population of Montreal, a city with an attractive geographical location, has declined over the last thirty years, because of negative economic, social and political, and ...
In 2006 there were 396,000 Chinese in Greater Vancouver. [28] That year, according to Statistics Canada data, the numbers of Chinese in Greater Vancouver included 168,210 in the city of Vancouver proper, [38] 75,730 in Richmond, [39] 60,765 in Burnaby, [40] 20,205 in Surrey, [41] 19,580 in Coquitlam, [42] 5,835 in Delta, [43] 3,770 in New ...