Metro Vancouver, legally the Greater Vancouver Regional District, is the inter-municipal body, or regional district, charged with certain aspects of governance for the metropolitan area surrounding and including the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The territory under Metro Vancouver's authority is essentially synonymous with what is usually meant by the colloquial term Greater Vancouver, and Statistics Canada defines the Vancouver CMA (Census Metropolitan Area) as having perfectly coterminal boundaries with Metro Vancouver. Although the region's principal city is Vancouver, its seat is in the suburb of Burnaby.
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