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Originally Posted by Kybosh
Unless you actually live there, Vancouver to everyone else in the world is the actual city/West Van/North Van/UBC/Burnaby/Richmond.
Edit: Hell, I include everything on that map as Vancouver.
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Originally Posted by flameswin
So when they say Vancouver is the third biggest city in Canada, what the hell are they reffering to? Do they just include Burnaby, Delta, Richmond, Mew West Minister, WhiteRock, Surrey, North Vancouver (district), North Vancouver (city), UEL, West Vancouver, Abbostford, Anmore, Port Moody, Belcara, Coquitlom, etc?
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Do you guys not know the difference between city and metropolitan areas? Almost every city is like this and it's places like Calgary where the metro and urban populations are quite similar that are exceedingly rare.
Metropolitan Vancouver includes all of those places and has a population of 2.1 million people, but the actual City of Vancouver is quite small and has only a little over 500,000 residents. Just like the city of Los Angeles has 3.8 million people (metro area has 15 million), the city of Chicago has 2.7 million (metro population of 8.7 million), and the city of Seattle has 600,000 people (metro population 3.4 million). That's generally what happens when a bunch of independent cities grow into eachother.