Metro Vancouver, legally titled the Greater Vancouver Regional District, is the inter-municipal governing body of the regional district known as the Greater Vancouver Regional District, charged with certain aspects of governance for the metropolitan area surrounding and including the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Greater Vancouver as a region and name emerged when the newly born City of Vancouver expanded to become larger than the ...
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Metro Vancouver, legally titled the Greater Vancouver Regional District, is the inter-municipal governing body of the regional district known as the Greater Vancouver Regional District, charged with certain aspects of governance for the metropolitan area surrounding and including the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Greater Vancouver as a region and name emerged when the newly born City of Vancouver expanded to become larger than the older New Westminster, while the regional district taking its name was created only much later, in 1967. The territory under Metro Vancouver's authority is essentially synonymous with what is usually meant by the colloquial term "Greater Vancouver", although wilderness and outlying rural regions within the regional district are not generally meant when the term "Greater Vancouver" is used. Statistics Canada defines the Vancouver CMA (Census Metropolitan Area) as having perfectly coterminal boundaries with the Greater Vancouver Regional...
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