Metro Vancouver, Canada

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metropolitan area regional district

Metro Vancouver, Canada is a major metropolitan region in British Columbia that encompasses the city of Vancouver and surrounding municipalities, serving as a key economic, cultural, and educational hub on Canada’s west coast.

Aliases (5)

Statements (55)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	metropolitan area → regional district →
abbreviation	MVRD →
bordersBodyOfWater	Burrard Inlet → Fraser River → Strait of Georgia →
climate	oceanic climate →
containsCity	Burnaby → Coquitlam → New Westminster → North Vancouver → Richmond → Surrey → Vancouver → West Vancouver →
containsElectoralArea	Electoral Area A →
containsFirstNation	Tsawwassen First Nation →
containsMunicipality	Delta → Langley City → Maple Ridge → Pitt Meadows → Port Coquitlam → Port Moody → Township of Langley → White Rock →
containsUniversity	Simon Fraser University → University of British Columbia → University of the Fraser Valley (campus in Abbotsford region is nearby but not in Metro Vancouver) →
country	Canada →
daylightSavingTimeZone	Pacific Daylight Time →
formerName	Greater Vancouver Regional District →
governingBody	Metro Vancouver Board of Directors →
hasMultilingualPopulation	true →
hasUrbanAreaName	Greater Vancouver →
headquartersLocation	Burnaby →
isCulturalCenterOf	British Columbia →
isEconomicHubOf	British Columbia →
isEducationalCenterFor	British Columbia →
locatedIn	Lower Mainland →
locatedOn	Pacific coast →
majorAirport	Vancouver International Airport →
majorIndustry	film and television production → international trade → technology → tourism →
majorPort	Port of Vancouver →
officialLanguage	English →
officialName	Metro Vancouver Regional District →
partOf	Cascadia bioregion →
populationRankInCanada	third-largest metropolitan area in Canada →
province	British Columbia →
publicTransitOperator	TransLink →
rapidTransitSystem	SkyTrain →
seat	Burnaby →
timeZone	Pacific Time Zone →

Referenced by (20)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Burnaby ("Greater Vancouver") → Burnaby ("Metro Vancouver Regional District") → Burrard Peninsula ("Metro Vancouver") → Mount Pleasant, Vancouver ("Metro Vancouver") → Vancouver ("Metro Vancouver") → Vancouver ("Lower Mainland") → West End (Vancouver) ("Metro Vancouver") → Yaletown ("Metro Vancouver") →	partOf
Burnaby ("Metro Vancouver") → Simon Fraser University ("Metro Vancouver") →	locatedIn
Hollywood North ("Metro Vancouver") →	associatedWithRegion
Canada West Coast ("Vancouver metropolitan area") →	hasPart
Metro Vancouver ("Greater Vancouver") →	hasUrbanAreaName
Commonwealth of Learning →	headquartersLocation
Southwest Washington ("Vancouver metropolitan area") →	includesMetropolitanArea
British Columbia ("Metro Vancouver") →	largestMetropolitanArea
Metro Vancouver ("Metro Vancouver Regional District") →	officialName
Vancouver International Airport ("Vancouver metropolitan area") →	serves
Port of Vancouver ("Metro Vancouver") →	servesRegion
Washington's 3rd congressional district ("Vancouver metropolitan area") →	urbanCenter