Sidney
Sidney is a town of about 11,500 people north of Victoria, on Vancouver Island. It is generally considered part of the Victoria metropolitan area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Sidney Museum, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Shaundd, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 11,700 residents
- Description: town in British Columbia, Canada
- Also known as: “Sidney, BC” and “Sidney, British Columbia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Shaw Centre for the Salish Sea and Sidney Museum.
Shaw Centre for the Salish Sea
Public aquarium
The Shaw Centre for the Salish Sea is a not-for-profit community aquarium and cultural learning centre dedicated to the ecosystem of the Salish Sea. It is located on the waterfront in the town of Sidney on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.
Sidney Museum
Museum
Photo: Sidney Museum, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Sidney Museum and Archives is a non-profit community organization located in Sidney, British Columbia, Canada, which is dedicated to the history of Sidney and North Saanich.
British Columbia Aviation Museum
Museum
The British Columbia Aviation Museum is located in Sidney, British Columbia, Canada. It is on the grounds of the Victoria International Airport at 1910 Norseman Road on the east side of the airport.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include North Saanich.
North Saanich
Town
Photo: Shawn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The District of North Saanich is located on the Saanich Peninsula of British Columbia, approximately 25 kilometres north of Victoria on southern Vancouver Island.
Sidney
- Category: locality
- Location: Sidney, Capital Regional District, British Columbia, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
48.6506° or 48° 39′ 2″ northLongitude
-123.3983° or 123° 23′ 54″ westPopulation
11,700Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)United Nations Location Code
CA SDYOpen location code
84WRMJ22+6MOpenStreetMap ID
node 52553027OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Sidney” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سيدني، كولومبيا البريطانية”
- Arabic: “سيدني”
- Asturian: “Sidney”
- Bengali: “সিডনি”
- Catalan: “Sidney (Colúmbia Britànica)”
- Catalan: “Sidney”
- Chinese: “悉尼 (卑詩省)”
- Chinese: “悉尼”
- Dutch: “Sidney”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سيدنى”
- Esperanto: “Sidney, Brita Kolumbio”
- Esperanto: “Sidney”
- French: “Sidney”
- German: “Sidney”
- Italian: “Sidney”
- Japanese: “シドニー市”
- Malayalam: “സിഡ്നി, കാനഡ”
- Persian: “سیدنی، بریتیش کلمبیا”
- Polish: “Sidney (Kolumbia Brytyjska)”
- Polish: “Sidney”
- Russian: “Сидней”
- Russian: “Сидни”
- Slovenian: “Sidney”
- Spanish: “Sidney (Columbia Británica)”
- Spanish: “Sidney”
- Ukrainian: “Сідні”
- Welsh: “Sidney”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Sidney”. Photo: Shaundd, CC BY-SA 4.0.