Vancouver
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.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include City Centre and Kitsilano-Granville Island.
Gastown-Chinatown
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as West End and Commercial Dr-Hastings Park.
Places of Interest
Highlights include BC Place and Rogers Arena.
Pacific Central Station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kensington–Cedar Cottage and Kitsilano.
Kensington–Cedar Cottage
Suburb
Photo: Hu Gadarn, Public domain.
Vancouver
- City with 662,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 70 metres (230 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code YVR
- Description: largest city in the province of British Columbia, Canada
- Also known as“City of Vancouver”“Vancouver, BC”“Vancouver, British Columbia”
- Neighbors
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- Location
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Latitude
49.2609° or 49° 15′ 39″ north
Longitude
-123.114° or 123° 6′ 50″ west
UN/LOCODE
CA VAN
Open location code
84XR7V6P+8C
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Vancouver” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Vancouver”
- Afrikaans: “Vancouver”
- Albanian: “Vancouver”
- Albanian: “Vankuvër”
- Amharic: “ቫንኩቨር”
- Arabic: “فانكوفر (كولومبيا البريطانية)”
- Arabic: “فانكوفر”
- Aragonese: “Vancouver”
- Armenian: “Վանկուվեր”
- Assamese: “ভেনকুভাৰ”
- Asturian: “Vancouver”
- Azerbaijani: “Vankuver”
- Balinese: “Vancouver”
- Bashkir: “Ванкувер”
- Basque: “Vancouver”
- Belarusian: “Ванкувер”
- Belarusian: “Ванкувэр”
- Bengali: “ভ্যাঙ্কুভার”
- Bengali: “ভ্যানকুভার”
- Bhojpuri: “वैंकूवर”
- Bosnian: “Vancouver”
- Bosnian: “Vankuver”
- Breton: “Vancouver”
- Bulgarian: “Ванкувър”
- Burmese: “ဗန်ကူးဗားမြို့”
- Burmese: “ဗန်ခူးဗာမြို့”
- Catalan: “Vancouver”
- Catalan: “Vancúver”
- Cebuano: “Vancouver”
- Central Kurdish: “ڤانکۆڤەر”
- Chechen: “Ванкувер”
- Chinese: “Vancouver”
- Chinese: “咸水埠”
- Chinese: “温哥华”
- Chinese: “溫哥華”
- Chinese: “溫哥華市”
- Chinese: “雲埠”
- Chinese: “雲高華”
- Cornish: “Vancouver”
- Corsican: “Vancouver”
- Croatian: “Vancouver”
- Croatian: “Vankuver”
- Czech: “Vancouver”
- Danish: “Vancouver”
- Dimli (individual language): “Vancouver”
- Dutch: “Stad Vancouver”
- Dutch: “Vancouver”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فانكوفر”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ڤانكوڤر”
- Emilian: “Vancouver”
- Erzya: “Ванкувер ош”
- Esperanto: “Vancouver”
- Esperanto: “Vankuvero”
- Estonian: “Vancouver”
- Faroese: “Vancouver”
- Finnish: “Vancouver”
- French: “Vancouver”
- French: “Ville de Vancouver”
- Galician: “Vancouver”
- Georgian: “ვანკუვერი”
- German: “Vancouver (Britisch-Kolumbien)”
- German: “Vancouver”
- Greek: “Βανκούβερ”
- Guarani: “Vangúve”
- Gujarati: “વાનકુવર”
- Hakka Chinese: “Vancouver”
- Hakka Chinese: “Vûn-kô-fà”
- Hausa: “Vancouver”
- Hebrew: “ונקובר”
- Hindi: “वांकूवर”
- Hindi: “वैंकूवर”
- Hungarian: “Vancouver”
- Icelandic: “Vancouver”
- Ido: “Vancouver”
- Indonesian: “Kota Vancouver”
- Indonesian: “Vancouver, BC”
- Indonesian: “Vancouver, British Columbia”
- Indonesian: “Vancouver”
- Interlingua: “Vancouver”
- Interlingue: “Vancouver”
- Irish: “Vancouver, An Cholóim Bhriotanach”
- Irish: “Vancouver”
- Italian: “Vancouver”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Vangkuuva”
- Japanese: “ヴァンクーヴァー”
- Japanese: “バンクーバー”
- Japanese: “バンクーバー市”
- Javanese: “Vancouver”
- Kalaallisut: “Vancouver”
- Kannada: “ವಾಂಕೂವರ್”
- Kannada: “ವ್ಯಾನ್ ಕೋವರ್”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Vankuver”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Ванкувер”
- Kashmiri: “وینکوٗوَر”
- Kazakh: “Ванковер”
- Kazakh: “Ванкувер БК”
- Kazakh: “Ванкувер Канада”
- Kazakh: “Ванкувер қаласы”
- Kazakh: “Ванкувер, Б.К.”
- Kazakh: “Ванкувер, БК”
- Kazakh: “Ванкувер, Британдық Колумбия”
- Kazakh: “Ванкувер”
- Khmer: “វ៉ាន់ខូវឺ”
- Kirghiz: “Ванкувер”
- Komi-Permyak: “Ванкувер”
- Korean: “방쿠버”
- Korean: “밴쿠버”
- Korean: “밴쿠우버”
- Korean: “뱅쿠버”
- Korean: “벤쿠버”
- Korean: “벵쿠버”
- Kurdish: “Vancouver”
- Kurdish: “Venkûver”
- Ladino: “Vancouver”
- Latin: “Vancouver”
- Latin: “Vancuverium”
- Latvian: “Vankūvera”
- Limburgan: “Vancouver”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Vancouver”
- Literary Chinese: “溫哥華”
- Lithuanian: “Vancouver”
- Lithuanian: “Vankuveris”
- Lithuanian: “Vankūveris”
- Lombard: “Vancouver”
- Luxembourgish: “Vancouver”
- Macedonian: “Ванкувер”
- Malagasy: “Vancouver”
- Malay: “Vancouver”
- Malayalam: “വാൻകൂവർ”
- Maltese: “Vancouver”
- Marathi: “व्हँकुव्हर”
- Marathi: “व्हँकूव्हर”
- Marathi: “व्हानकूवर”
- Marathi: “व्हॅनकुवर”
- Marathi: “व्हॅनकूवर”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Vancouver”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Vancouver”
- Mingrelian: “ვანკუვერი”
- Moksha: “Ванкувэр”
- Mongolian: “Ванкувер”
- Nepali: “भ्यानकुभर”
- Northern Frisian: “Vancouver”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vancouver”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vancouver”
- Norwegian: “Vancouver”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Vancouver”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Framcūford”
- Oriya: “ଭାଙ୍କୁଭର”
- Oriya: “ଭାଙ୍କୋଭର”
- Ossetian: “Ванкувер”
- Panjabi: “ਵੈਂਕੂਵਰ”
- Panjabi: “ਵੈਨਕੂਵਰ”
- Pennsylvania German: “Vancouver”
- Persian: “ونکور”
- Persian: “ونکوور، بریتیش کلمبیا”
- Persian: “ونکوور”
- Picard: “Vancouver”
- Piemontese: “Vancouver”
- Polish: “Vancouver”
- Portuguese: “Cidade de Vancouver”
- Portuguese: “Vancouver, Colúmbia Britânica”
- Portuguese: “Vancouver”
- Portuguese: “Vancôver”
- Pushto: “وانکوور”
- Pushto: “وانکووېر ښار”
- Pushto: “وانکووېر”
- Pushto: “ونکوور”
- Pushto: “وينکوور”
- Pushto: “وینکوور”
- Quechua: “Vancouver”
- Romanian: “Vancouver, Canada”
- Romanian: “Vancouver”
- Russian: “Vancouver”
- Russian: “Ванкувер”
- Sardinian: “Vancouver”
- Scots: “Ceety o Vancouver”
- Scots: “Vancouver, Breetish Columbie”
- Scots: “Vancouver”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Bhancoubhair”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Vancouver”
- Serbian: “Vancouver”
- Serbian: “Ванкувер”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Vancouver”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Vankuver”
- Shan: “ဝဵင်းဝၢၼ်ႇၵူးဝႃး”
- Sicilian: “Vancouver”
- Silesian: “Vancouver”
- Sinhala: “වැන්කුවර්”
- Slovak: “Vancouver”
- Slovenian: “Vancouver”
- Somali: “Vancouver”
- South Azerbaijani: “ونکوور”
- Spanish: “Vancouver (Canadá)”
- Spanish: “Vancouver (Columbia Británica)”
- Spanish: “Vancouver”
- Swahili: “Vancouver”
- Swedish: “Vancouver”
- Swedish: “Vancover”
- Sylheti: “ꠅꠦꠋꠇꠥꠅꠣꠞ”
- Tagalog: “Vancouver”
- Tajik: “Ванкувер”
- Tamil: “வாங்கூவர்”
- Tamil: “வான்கூவர்”
- Tatar: “Ванкувер”
- Telugu: “వాంకోవర్”
- Thai: “Vancouver”
- Thai: “แวนคูเวอร์”
- Tibetan: “ཝན་ཁུ་ཝེར།”
- Tok Pisin: “Vancouver”
- Tumbuka: “Vancouver”
- Turkish: “Vancouver”
- Turkmen: “Wankower”
- Turkmen: “Wankuwer”
- Twi: “Vancouver”
- Uighur: “Wankuwér”
- Uighur: “ۋانكۇۋېر”
- Ukrainian: “Ванкувер”
- Urdu: “وینکوور”
- Uzbek: “Vancouver”
- Uzbek: “Vankuver”
- Venetian: “Vancouver”
- Veps: “Vankuver”
- Vietnamese: “Van-cu-vơ”
- Vietnamese: “Vancouver”
- Volapük: “Vancouver”
- Waray (Philippines): “Vancouver”
- Welsh: “Vancouver”
- Western Armenian: “Վանքուվըր”
- Western Frisian: “Fankoever”
- Western Frisian: “Fankûver”
- Western Frisian: “Vancouver”
- Western Panjabi: “وینکوور”
- Wu Chinese: “温哥华”
- Yakut: “Ванкувер”
- Yiddish: “װאַנקוּװער”
- Yoruba: “Vancouver”
- Yue Chinese: “Vancouver”
- Yue Chinese: “咸水埠”
- Yue Chinese: “温哥華”
- Yue Chinese: “溫哥華”
- Yue Chinese: “溫高華”
- Yue Chinese: “雲高華”
- Yue Chinese: “鹹水埠”
- “ma tomo Wankuwa”
Lower Mainland: Highlights
Notable places include North Vancouver and Burnaby.
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