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Vancouver

Vancouver occupies an enviable spot in the world. Blessed with miles of coastline, lush vegetation and crowned by the Mountains, it's hard to be there and not stop at some point and be amazed by what you see.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include City Centre and Kitsilano-Granville Island.

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The , 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.

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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.

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Gastown and Chinatown are in the east end of downtown Vancouver between and . The area is one of the oldest parts of the city and much of the early architecture and character remains, giving it a different look and feel to the glass and concrete of the rest of downtown.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as West End and Commercial Dr-Hastings Park.

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The of Vancouver is one of the most popular places to hang out in the city. Located on the western half of the downtown peninsula, the compact, mostly residential area is surrounded by a string of beaches and the beloved Stanley Park, and bustling with tonnes of shops and eateries on its main streets.

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Commercial Drive-Hastings Park makes up part of "East Vancouver". Its main draw is Commercial Drive, which is one of the most interesting areas of Vancouver in terms of ethnic and culinary diversity.

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encompasses the established neighbourhood of Yaletown and the still-developing area of Southeast False Creek. Reclaimed industrial areas, both neighbourhoods are a mix of modern condo architecture and restored industrial warehouses.

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is a district in the west side of Vancouver occupying a pretty spot at the tip of the Point Grey peninsula. Its main feature is the University of British Columbia, the largest university in and one of the larger universities in .

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Vancouver South covers the southern portion of Vancouver. It is mostly residential and has some of the city's older and more prestigious neighbourhoods. The area is best known for its gardens and parks, such as VanDusen Gardens.

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Mount Pleasant-South Main is a district of Vancouver south of 6th Ave. It has long been a mixed residential, commercial and industrial area. Its main draws are Queen Elizabeth Park, and the restaurants and eclectic shops along Main Street.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include BC Place and Rogers Arena.

Stadium
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is a multi-purpose stadium in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Located at the north side of , it is owned and operated by the BC Pavilion Corporation, a Crown corporation of the province.

Stadium
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is a multi-purpose arena at 800 Griffiths Way in the of 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.

Railway station
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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 , Ontario, and the northern terminus of United States passenger railroad company Amtrak's Cascades service to , Washington, and , Oregon.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kensington–Cedar Cottage and Kitsilano.

Suburb
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is one of the most ethnically diverse neighbourhoods in east Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The neighbourhood is approximately 7.23 square kilometres in area.

Suburb
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, 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.

Suburb
, also commonly known as Grandview–Woodlands, is a neighbourhood in Vancouver, , to the east of the downtown area, stretching south from the shores of and encompassing portions of the popular Commercial Drive area.

Vancouver

Latitude
49.2609° or 49° 15′ 39″ north
Longitude
-123.114° or 123° 6′ 50″ west
Population
662,000
Elevation
70 metres (230 feet)
IATA airport code
YVR
United Nations Location Code
CA VAN
Open location code
84XR7V6P+8C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 52553466
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
6173331
Wiki­data ID
Q24639
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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”
  • Erzya: “Ванкувер ош”
  • Esperanto: “Vancouver”
  • Esperanto: “Vankuvero”
  • Estonian: “Vancouver”
  • Faroese: “Vancouver”
  • Finnish: “Vancouver”
  • French: “Vancouver (Colombie-Britannique)”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • 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): “Fancoufer”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Vancouver”
  • 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: “Vancouver”
  • Serbian: “Vancouver”
  • Serbian: “Ванкувер”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Vancouver”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Vankuver”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • “Vancouver”
  • “वैंकूवर”

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