Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Sechelt (/ ˈ s iː ʃ ɛ l t /, shíshálh Language: ch'atlich [3]) is a district municipality located on the lower Sunshine Coast of British Columbia.Approximately 50 km (30 miles) northwest of Vancouver, it is accessible from mainland British Columbia by a 40-minute ferry trip between Horseshoe Bay and Langdale, and a 25-minute drive from Langdale along Highway 101, also known as the ...
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the shíshálh Nation Government District had a population of 765 living in 333 of its 377 total private dwellings, a change of 9.8% from its 2016 population of 697. With a land area of 11.03 km 2 (4.26 sq mi), it had a population density of 69.4/km 2 (179.6/sq mi) in 2021. [7]
Population is concentrated along the coast. Midway up the coast, beginning at the town of Sechelt, the coastal area forms a peninsula separated from the inland area by Sechelt Inlet . The 2016 census reported a total population of 29,970 persons [ 3 ] living on a land area of 3,778.17 km 2 (1,458.76 sq mi).
The population of approximately 28,000 is strung out along Highway 101, which generally traces the southern and western coastline. The major economic activities are tourism and logging. There is just one incorporated district on the peninsula - Sechelt, located at the isthmus between Sechelt Inlet and the Georgia Strait. Other communities include:
The table below lists the 100 largest census subdivisions (municipalities or municipal equivalents) in Canada by population, using data from the 2021 Canadian census for census subdivisions. [1] This list includes only the population within a census subdivision's boundaries as defined at the time of the census.
The shíshálh Nation (also spelled Shishalh) is a First Nation located on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, Canada. Their swiya (world, 'Territory’) comprises 515,000 hectares that stretches from xwesam (Roberts Creek) in the southeast, to x̱enichen (Jervis Inlet) in the north, to kwekwenis in the southwest. [2]
This is the list of countries and other inhabited territories of the world by total population, based on estimates published by the United Nations in the 2024 revision of World Population Prospects. It presents population estimates from 1950 to the present.
The 2021 Canadian census had a total population count of 36,991,981 individuals, making up approximately 0.5% of the world's total population. [5] [20] A population estimate for 2024 put the total number of people in Canada at 41,012,563. [21] [22] Demographic statistics according to the World Population Review in 2022: [23] One birth every 1 ...