Vancouver
Vancouver is a locality in Metro Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include BC Place and Rogers Arena.
BC Place
Stadium
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BC Place is a multi-purpose stadium in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Located at the north side of False Creek, it is owned and operated by the BC Pavilion Corporation, a Crown corporation of the province.
Rogers Arena
Stadium
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Rogers Arena is a multi-purpose arena at 800 Griffiths Way in Downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Opened in 1995, the arena was known as General Motors Place from its opening until July 6, 2010, when General Motors Canada ended its naming rights sponsorship and a new agreement for those rights was reached with Rogers Communications.
Pacific Central Station
Railway station
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Pacific Central Station is a railway station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, which acts as the western terminus of Via Rail's cross-country The Canadian service to Toronto, Ontario, and the northern terminus of United States passenger railroad company Amtrak's Cascades service to Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vancouver and City Centre.
Vancouver
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Vancouver occupies an enviable spot in the world. Blessed with miles of coastline, lush vegetation and crowned by the North Shore Mountains, it's hard to be there and not stop at some point and be amazed by what you see.
City Centre
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The City Centre, also known as the Central Business District, is the heart of Vancouver's downtown and contains the city's Financial District, the Granville Entertainment district, and many of its hotels, clubs and historical buildings.
Kitsilano-Granville Island
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Kitsilano, South Granville and Granville Island form most of the northern part of the Vancouver west side. In the 1960s Kits was a neighbourhood where hippies "tuned in and dropped out" but today it has some of Vancouver's most expensive properties.
Vancouver
- Type: Locality with 662,000 residents
- Location: Metro Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia, Canada, North America
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Latitude
49.2486° or 49° 14′ 55″ northLongitude
-123.1078° or 123° 6′ 28″ westPopulation
662,000Elevation
72 metres (236 feet)Open location code
84XR6VXR+CVGeoNames ID
12031873
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