British Columbia
Regional District of North Okanagan
Vernon

Vernon

Vernon is a city of about 45,000 people in the north end of the Valley of . Vernon is known for its lakes and beaches in the summer, and skiing and hockey in the winter.
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  • Type: City with 40,100 residents
  • Description: city in British Columbia, Canada
  • Also known as: “Vernon, BC” and “Vernon, British Columbia”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Vernon Jubilee Hospital and Vernon Secondary School.

Hospital building
Photo: The Interior, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a hospital located in Vernon, , a city in the region of . Initial examination for constructing a hospital in Vernon began in 1895, when residents of the city demanded a hospital to be created.

School
Vernon Secondary is a public high school in Vernon, British Columbia, . It is part of School District 22 Vernon.

School
W.L. Seaton Secondary is a public high school in Vernon, British Columbia, , located near city centre. It is part of School District 22 Vernon. Seaton secondary is one of several high schools in the Vernon area.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Okanagan Landing and Lumby Junction.

Quarter
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was an unincorporated settlement and steamboat port at the north end of in the Southern Interior of British Columbia. Located southwest of the city of Vernon, it was the terminus station for the Shuswap and Okanagan Railway and served as the port and shipyard for steamboats operating to the south, as well as a transfer barge slip.

Locality
is a railway point in Osoyoos Division Yale Land District, , Canada, near the north end of , at coordinates.

Vernon

Latitude
50.2669° or 50° 16′ 1″ north
Longitude
-119.2718° or 119° 16′ 19″ west
Population
40,100
Elevation
383 metres (1,257 feet)
IATA airport code
YVE
United Nations Location Code
CA VER
Open location code
95227P8H+P7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 51973182
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
6173864
Wiki­data ID
Q985671
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Vernon” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “فيرنون، كولومبيا البريطانية”
  • Arabic: “فيرنون”
  • Asturian: “Vernon”
  • Belarusian: “Вернан (Брытанская Калумбія)”
  • Belarusian: “Вернан”
  • Bengali: “ভেনন”
  • Cebuano: “Vernon”
  • Chinese: “弗农”
  • Chinese: “弗農”
  • Chinese: “維農”
  • Czech: “Vernon”
  • Danish: “Vernon”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Vernon, Britanya”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Vernon, Kolombiyay Britanya”
  • Dutch: “Vernon”
  • Esperanto: “Vernon”
  • Finnish: “Vernon”
  • French: “Vernon”
  • German: “Vernon”
  • Greek: “Βέρνον”
  • Gujarati: “વર્નોન”
  • Hindi: “वर्नोन”
  • Hungarian: “Vernon”
  • Indonesian: “Vernon”
  • Italian: “Vernon”
  • Japanese: “ヴァーノン”
  • Japanese: “バーノン”
  • Kannada: “ವೆರ್ಮೊನ್”
  • Korean: “버넌”
  • Kurdish: “Vernon, Kolombiya Brîtanyayê”
  • Latvian: “Vernona”
  • Lithuanian: “Vernonas”
  • Malay: “Vernon”
  • Malayalam: “വെർനോൺ, ബ്രിട്ടീഷ് കൊളംബിയ”
  • Malayalam: “വെർനോൺ”
  • Marathi: “वर्नोन”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vernon”
  • Norwegian: “Vernon”
  • Persian: “ورنن، بریتیش کلمبیا”
  • Polish: “Vernon”
  • Portuguese: “Vernon”
  • Russian: “Вернон”
  • Serbian: “Вернон (Британска Колумбија)”
  • Serbian: “Вернон”
  • Sinhala: “වර්නොන්”
  • Slovak: “Vernon”
  • Slovenian: “Vernon”
  • Spanish: “Vernon (Columbia Británica)”
  • Spanish: “Vernon”
  • Swedish: “Vernon, British Columbia”
  • Tamil: “வெர்னாண்”
  • Telugu: “వెర్నన్”
  • Thai: “เวอร์นอน”
  • Turkish: “Vernon, Britanya Kolumbiyası”
  • Turkish: “Vernon”
  • Ukrainian: “Вернон”
  • Urdu: “ورنن، برٹش کولمبیا”
  • Urdu: “ورنون، برٹش کولمبیا”
  • Vietnamese: “Vernon”
  • Volapük: “Vernon”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Vernon, British Columbia”
  • Western Panjabi: “ورنون، برٹش کولمبیا”

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