Downtown
Downtown is a suburb in Vancouver, British Columbia. Downtown is situated nearby to the neighborhood Gastown, as well as near Yaletown.Places of Interest
Highlights include Vancouver Art Gallery and BC Place.
Vancouver Art Gallery
Art gallery
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The Vancouver Art Gallery is an art museum in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The museum occupies a 15,300-square-metre-building adjacent to Robson Square in downtown Vancouver, making it the largest art museum in Western Canada by building size.
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.
Granville station
Metro station
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Granville is an underground station on the Expo Line of Metro Vancouver's SkyTrain rapid transit system. The station is located in Downtown Vancouver on the portion of Granville Street that is known as the Granville Mall.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include City Centre and Gastown.
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.
Gastown
Neighborhood
Photo: Jennie Robinson, CC BY 2.0.
Gastown is the original settlement that became the core of the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and a national historic site and a neighbourhood in the northwest section of the Downtown Eastside, adjacent to Downtown Vancouver.
Yaletown
Neighborhood
Yaletown is an area of Downtown Vancouver, Canada, bordered by False Creek and Robson and Homer Streets. Formerly a heavy industrial area dominated by warehouses and rail yards, since the 1986 World's Fair it has been transformed into one of the most densely populated neighbourhoods in the city.
Downtown
- Type: Suburb
- Category: locality
- Location: Vancouver, Metro Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
49.28339° or 49° 17′ 0″ northLongitude
-123.11746° or 123° 7′ 3″ westOpen location code
84XR7VMM+92OpenStreetMap ID
node 3736867761OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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