A Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) occurs as sub-provincial administrative district inside a province of British Columbia, Canada. It is a area surrounding a city of Vancouver, and is au fond synonymous by using Greater Vancouver or even a Vancouver Metropolitan Area. A seat is inside Burnaby.

Geography

A Greater Vancouver Regional District occupies a sou'west corner of mainland British Columbia. It is a american half of the Lower Mainland, (the moo Fraser Valley), the eastern half existence occupied per Fraser Valley Regional District, which includes the communities of Abbotsford, Chilliwack, and Mission. Northward lie a Coast Mountains and the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District, including the communities of Squamish and Whistler. To the west lies Georgia Strait, and south lies Whatcom County in Washington.

Based on data from a 2001 nose count, a area is front yard to 1,986,965 humans, astir half of the people of British Columbia. Recent estimates (2003) stand positioned a people at Deuce.Five million, representing an tremendous approximated incubation since a survive nose count.

Municipalities

A Regional District consists of Xxi incorporated municipalities & a single unincorporated front yard. A Xxi municipalities come:

Village of Anmore - Pop. 1,344 (2001) Village of Belcarra - Pop. 682 (2001) District of Bowen Island - Pop. 2,957(2001) City of Burnaby - Pop. 193,954 (2001) City of Coquitlam - Pop. 112,890 (2001) District of Delta - Pop. 96,950 (2001) City of Langley Pop. 23,643 (2001) District (Town) of Langley - Pop. 86,896 (2001) Village of Lions Bay - Pop. 1,379 (2001) District of Maple Ridge - Pop. 63,169 (2001) City of New Westminster - Pop. 54,656 (2001) City of North Vancouver - Pop. 44,303 (2001) District of North Vancouver - Pop. 82,310 (2001) District of Pitt Meadows - Pop. 14,670 (2001) City of Port Coquitlam - Pop. 51,257 (2001) City of Port Moody - Pop. 30,091 (2001) City of Richmond - Pop. 164,345 (2001) City of Surrey - Pop. 347,825 (2001) City of Vancouver - Pop. 545,671 (2001) District of West Vancouver - Pop. 41,421 (2001) City of White Rock - Pop. 18,250 (2001)

A unincorporated Greater Vancouver Regional District Electoral Area A, which comprises wholly unincorporated land inside a Regional District boundaries, including a University of British Columbia Endowment Lands & Fraser Flow of any stream islands of Douglas Island and Barnston Island. The people of Electoral dominion A is 7,096 (2001).

There are too the total of Indian reserves within the geographical locality that are non subject to governance per municipalities or even the Regional District by owning a people of 6,543 (2001).

Administrative Role

A primary work of a Greater Vancouver Regional District is to administer resources & services which are then park through the area. These include community planning, a water supply, sewerage, drain, housing, transport, air quality, & parks.

For instance, GVRD Regional Parks oversees the development & maintenance of 19 regional parks, also when various nature & severity reserver and greenways. (A regional parks come distinct from either municipal parks in this it is usually further "wild" & represent unique geographical zones in a vicinity, like peat bog & matured rainforests.)

A Greater Vancouver Regional District as well oversees TransLink, which administers public transportation & major bridges & main road throughout a region. TransLink likewise diarrhea a AirCare program, which primarily aims to improve air quality by reducing harmful emissions from machine. In a period 1992 to 2002, this program is credited sustaining reducing the air emissions in the populated area by thirty-5 percent.