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Add {{British Columbia regional districts map|map=Census divisions BC.png}} in articles pertaining Regional districts of British Columbia. The map parameter is optional, it can be changed with equal map images, the default is Census divisions BC.png. A regional district map with linked labels will be rendered.
The following list comprises the physiogeographic regions of the Canadian province of British Columbia as defined by S.S. Holland in Bulletin 48 of the Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources' Landforms of British Columbia. [1] [2]
{{Subdivisions of British Columbia|detached=yes}} for communities not incorporated in their own right that lie within a more broadly drawn incorporated district municipality, displays a line with all such communities in British Columbia. Note that these communities are detached townsites rather than simple neighborhoods within a larger conurbation.
The provinces and territories are sometimes grouped into regions, listed here from west to east by province, followed by the three territories.Seats in the Senate are equally divided among four regions: the West, Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritimes, with special status for Newfoundland and Labrador as well as for the three territories of Northern Canada ('the North').
Regional districts came into being via an order of government in 1965 with the enactment of amendments to the Municipal Act. [1] Until the creation of regional districts, the only local form of government in British Columbia were incorporated municipalities, and services in areas outside municipal boundaries had to be sought from the province or through improvement districts.
British Columbia is customarily divided into three main regions, the Interior, the Coast and the Lower Mainland (though the last-named is technically part of the Coast). These are broken up by a loose and often overlapping system of cultural-geographic regions, often based on river basins but sometimes spanning them.
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