- Population
- About 5.0 million
- Largest city
- Vancouver
- Capital
- Victoria
- Entered Confederation
- 1871
- Census divisions
- 28
- Busiest census division
- Greater Vancouver, about 2.6 million
- Quietest census division
- Stikine, about 683
British Columbia
Mountain after mountain, and a coast so cut about by inlets that its true length runs to tens of thousands of miles. Temperate rainforest in the west, desert in the southern interior, and Vancouver Island lying offshore with the provincial capital on its far corner.
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- Census divisions
- All 28, each named
- Sizes
- 11 sizes, 8" x 8" to 40" x 40"
The census divisions on this map
The 28 pieces are regional districts, which British Columbia uses where other provinces use counties. They were drawn to give services to places too thinly settled to run their own, so several of them cover more ground than a small country and answer to a few thousand people.