British Columbia
Squamish-Lillooet Regional District
Squamish

Squamish

Squamish is a town of about 20,000 people in the region of half-way between and . Squamish calls itself "the Outdoor Recreation Capital of Canada" due to the abundant rock climbing, hiking, mountain biking, golf, fishing, kayaking, bouldering, white-water rafting, horseback riding, scuba diving and other activities readily available in the area.
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  • Type: City with 23,800 residents
  • Description: town in British Columbia, Canada
  • Also known as: “Squamish, BC” and “Squamish, British Columbia”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Howe Sound Secondary School.

School
Photo: Wasuphon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Howe Sound Secondary is a public Secondary school in Squamish, British Columbia part of School District 48 Howe Sound. It is the largest school in the district, and is one of 2 schools in Squamish to offer grades 10–12.

Squamish

Latitude
49.6981° or 49° 41′ 53″ north
Longitude
-123.1559° or 123° 9′ 21″ west
Population
23,800
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
IATA airport code
YSE
United Nations Location Code
CA SQA
Open location code
84XRMRXV+6M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5314450692
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
6154636
Wiki­data ID
Q1342280
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Squamish” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Squamish”
  • Arabic: “سكواميش، كولومبيا البريطانية”
  • Arabic: “سكواميش”
  • Aragonese: “Squamish”
  • Arpitan: “Squamish”
  • Asturian: “Squamish”
  • Basque: “Squamish”
  • Bavarian: “Squamish”
  • Bengali: “স্কুয়ামিস , ব্রিটিশ কলম্বিয়া”
  • Breton: “Squamish”
  • Catalan: “Squamish”
  • Cebuano: “Squamish”
  • Chinese: “不列顛哥倫比亞省的史戈米殊”
  • Chinese: “史戈密殊”
  • Chinese: “史戈米施”
  • Chinese: “史戈米殊”
  • Chinese: “布蘭肯代爾”
  • Chinese: “斯掛密斯”
  • Chinese: “斯闊米什”
  • Chinese: “斯闊米甚”
  • Chinese: “斯阔米什”
  • Corsican: “Squamish”
  • Croatian: “Squamish”
  • Czech: “Squamish”
  • Danish: “Squamish”
  • Dutch: “Squamish, British Columbia”
  • Esperanto: “Squamish”
  • Estonian: “Squamish”
  • Finnish: “Squamish”
  • French: “Squamish”
  • Friulian: “Squamish”
  • Galician: “Squamish”
  • German: “Squamish”
  • Greek: “Σκουάμις”
  • Gujarati: “સ્ક્વેમિશ, બ્રિટિશ કોલમ્બિયા”
  • Hebrew: “סקאמיש (קולומביה הבריטית)”
  • Hindi: “स्क्वामिश”
  • Hungarian: “Squamish”
  • Icelandic: “Squamish”
  • Ido: “Squamish”
  • Indonesian: “Squamish, British Columbia”
  • Interlingua: “Squamish”
  • Interlingue: “Squamish”
  • Irish: “Squamish”
  • Italian: “Squamish”
  • Japanese: “スカーミッシュ”
  • Japanese: “スクアミッシュ”
  • Japanese: “スコーミッシュ”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಕ್ವಾಮಿಶ್, ಬ್ರಿಟಿಶ್ ಕೊಲಂಬಿಯ”
  • Kongo: “Squamish”
  • Korean: “스쿼미시”
  • Latvian: “Skvomiša, Britu Kolumbija”
  • Ligurian: “Squamish”
  • Limburgan: “Squamish”
  • Lithuanian: “Skvamišas”
  • Low German: “Squamish”
  • Luxembourgish: “Squamish”
  • Malagasy: “Squamish”
  • Malay: “Squamish, British Columbia”
  • Marathi: “स्क्वेमिश, ब्रिटिश कोलंबिया”
  • Minangkabau: “Squamish”
  • Narom: “Squamish”
  • Neapolitan: “Squamish”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Squamish”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Squamish”
  • Norwegian: “Squamish”
  • Nyungar: “Squamish”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Squamish”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Squamish”
  • Persian: “اسکوامیش”
  • Picard: “Squamish”
  • Piemontese: “Squamish”
  • Polish: “Squamish”
  • Portuguese: “Squamish”
  • Romanian: “Squamish, British Columbia”
  • Romansh: “Squamish”
  • Russian: “Сквомиш”
  • Russian: “Скомиш”
  • Sardinian: “Squamish”
  • Scots: “Squamish”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Squamish”
  • Serbian: “Squamish”
  • Sicilian: “Squamish”
  • Sinhala: “ස්කොමිෂ්, බ්‍රිටිෂ් කොලොම්බියාව”
  • Slovak: “Squamish”
  • Slovenian: “Squamish”
  • Spanish: “Squamish (Columbia Británica)”
  • Spanish: “Squamish”
  • Swahili: “Squamish”
  • Swedish: “Squamish, British Columbia”
  • Swedish: “Squamish”
  • Swiss German: “Squamish”
  • Tamil: “ஸ்குஆமிஷ் பிரிட்டிஷ் கொலம்பியா”
  • Telugu: “స్క్వామిష్”
  • Thai: “สความิช, รัฐบริติชโคลัมเบีย”
  • Turkish: “Squamish, British Columbia Eyaleti, Kanada”
  • Ukrainian: “Сквоміш”
  • Urdu: “سقوامیش”
  • Venetian: “Squamish”
  • Vietnamese: “Squamish, Tỉnh bang British Columbia”
  • Vietnamese: “Squamish”
  • Vlaams: “Squamish”
  • Volapük: “Squamish”
  • Walloon: “Squamish”
  • Welsh: “Squamish”
  • Wolof: “Squamish”
  • Yue Chinese: “史戈米殊”
  • Zulu: “Squamish”

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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 “Squamish”. Photo: gotovan, CC BY 2.0.