The Lower Mainland is the name that residents of
British Columbia apply to the region surrounding the City of
Vancouver. According to the 2001 census, over 2.2 million people live in the region; sixteen of the province's thirty most populous municipalities are located there While the term Lower Mainland has been recorded from the earliest period of non-native settlement in British Columbia, it has never been officially defined in legal terms. However, the term has historically been in popular usage for over a century to describe a region that extends from
Horseshoe Bay south to the U.S. boundary and east to
Hope at the eastern end of the
Fraser Valley. It has been increasingly used to include the commuter suburbs of the
Sunshine Coast (Gibsons, Sechelt, Roberts Creek, etc.) extending to
Powell River, British Columbia (see next section).
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