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The Lower Mainland is a geographic and cultural region of the mainland coast of British Columbia that generally comprises the regional districts of Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley. Home to approximately 3.05 million people as of the 2021 Canadian census , [ a ] the Lower Mainland contains sixteen of the province's 30 most populous ...
Also included are extreme points in elevation, extreme distances and other points of peculiar geographic interest. Extreme points in the 50 states: Point Barrow, Ka Lae, Sail Rock, Peaked Island Extreme points in the contiguous 48 states: Northwest Angle, Ballast Key, Sail Rock, Bodelteh Islands Extreme points of the U.S. on the North American ...
The valley is the largest landform of the Lower Mainland ecoregion, with its delta considered to begin in the area of Agassiz and Chilliwack, although stretches of floodplain flank the mountainsides between there and Hope. Several of the Fraser's lower tributaries have floodplains of their own, shared in common with the Fraser freshet.
0 Avenue (Zero Avenue) is a road in the Lower Mainland, British Columbia, running beside the Canada–United States border from Surrey to Abbotsford. [2] The road runs parallel to the physical border between the two countries.
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.
However, at a certain point — say, after 11 p.m. — I appreciate some quiet. My husband and I wanted to keep our hotel window open to get some fresh air as we slept, but the late-night revelers ...
The Cheam Range (pronounced / ʃ iː ˈ æ m / or / ʃ iː ˈ ɛ m /) is a mountain range in the Fraser Valley region of the Lower Mainland of British Columbia near the city of Chilliwack. The region is also a part of the Skagit Range of the Canadian Cascades and contains many rugged peaks.
Sumas Mountain, also referred to as Canadian Sumas to distinguish it from an identically named mountain just 10 km (6.2 mi) to the south in U.S. state of Washington across the border, is a mountain in eastern Fraser Lowland, in the Lower Mainland region of the Canadian province of British Columbia. [1]