Lower Mainland

The Lower Mainland is the name that residents of British Columbia apply to the region surrounding the City of Vancouver. As of 2005, about 2.5 million people live in the region.

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British Columbia - Vancouver

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While the term has been recorded from the earliest period of European settlement in British Columbia, it has never been officially defined in legal terms. However, it is the name of an ecoregion—a geoclimatic region that comprises the eastern part of the Georgia Depression and extends from Powell River, British Columbia on the Sunshine Coast to Hope at the eastern end of the Fraser Valley. The Lower Mainland Ecoregion is a part of the Pacific Maritime Ecozone http://www.ec.gc.ca/soer-ree/English/Framework/Nardesc/pacmar_e.cfm

Related Topics:
Ecoregion - Georgia Depression - Powell River, British Columbia - Sunshine Coast - Hope - Fraser Valley

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