British Columbia
Capital Regional District
Victoria

Victoria

Victoria is the capital of 's westernmost province; , near the southern tip of . Victoria contains a perfect combination of the old and new Canada.
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  • Type: City with 91,900 residents
  • Description: capital city of the province of British Columbia, Canada
  • Also known as: “Capital of British Columbia”, “UN/LOCODE:CAVIC”, “Victoria (British Columbia)”, “Victoria BC”, “Victoria Canada”, “Victoria, B.C.”, “Victoria, BC”, “Victoria, BC, Canada”, “Victoria, British Columbia”, “Victoria, British Columbia, Canada”, and “Victoria, Canada”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Royal British Columbia Museum and Craigdarroch Castle.

Museum
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The , founded in 1886, is a history museum in Victoria, , Canada. The "Royal" title was approved by Queen Elizabeth II and bestowed by Prince Philip in 1987, to coincide with a royal tour of that year.

Museum
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in Victoria, , Canada, is a historic, Victorian-era Scottish baronial mansion. It was designated a National Historic Site of Canada due to its landmark status in Victoria.

Stadium
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is an indoor arena located in Victoria, , Canada, and is the largest arena in British Columbia outside of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Oak Bay and Esquimalt.

Town
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Victoria is the capital of 's westernmost province; , near the southern tip of . Victoria contains a perfect combination of the old and new Canada.

Town
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The Township of is a municipality at the southern tip of , in , Canada. It is bordered to the east by the provincial capital, Victoria, to the south by the , to the west by and…

Neighborhood
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The in Victoria, British Columbia is the oldest in and the second oldest in North America after . Victoria's had its beginnings in the mid-nineteenth century in the mass influx of miners from California to what is now British Columbia in 1858.

Victoria

Latitude
48.4222° or 48° 25′ 20″ north
Longitude
-123.3657° or 123° 21′ 57″ west
Population
91,900
Elevation
18 metres (59 feet)
IATA airport code
YYJ
United Nations Location Code
CA VIC
Open location code
84WRCJCM+VP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 30189922
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
6174041
Wiki­data ID
Q2132
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Victoria” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Victoria, Brits-Columbië”
  • Afrikaans: “Victoria”
  • Albanian: “Viktoria”
  • Arabic: “فكتوريا، كولومبيا البريطانية”
  • Arabic: “فكتوريا”
  • Arabic: “فيكتوريا، كولومبيا البريطانية”
  • Arabic: “فيكتوريا”
  • Armenian: “Վիկտորիա”
  • Asturian: “Victoria”
  • Azerbaijani: “Viktoriya”
  • Basque: “Victoria”
  • Belarusian: “Вікторыя (Брытанская Калюмбія)”
  • Belarusian: “Вікторыя (Канада)”
  • Belarusian: “Вікторыя”
  • Bengali: “ভিক্টোরিয়া, ব্রিটিশ কলাম্বিয়া”
  • Bosnian: “Victoria (Britanska Kolumbija)”
  • Breton: “Victoria”
  • Bulgarian: “Виктория”
  • Catalan: “Victoria”
  • Cebuano: “Victoria”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڤیکتۆریا”
  • Chinese: “Victoria”
  • Chinese: “域多利”
  • Chinese: “維多利亞”
  • Chinese: “维多利亚”
  • Corsican: “Victoria”
  • Croatian: “Victoria”
  • Czech: “Victoria”
  • Danish: “Victoria”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Victoria, Britanya”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Victoria, Kolombiyay Britanya”
  • Dutch: “Victoria”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فكتوريا , كولومبيا البريطانيه”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ڤيكتوريا”
  • Esperanto: “Viktorijo”
  • Esperanto: “Viktorio”
  • Estonian: “Victoria”
  • Faroese: “Victoria (British Columbia)”
  • Faroese: “Victoria”
  • Finnish: “Victoria”
  • French: “Victoria, Colombie-Britannique”
  • French: “Victoria”
  • Galician: “Victoria”
  • Georgian: “ვიქტორია”
  • German: “Victoria”
  • Greek: “Βικτωρία Βρετανικής Κολομβίας”
  • Greek: “Βικτώρια Βρετανικής Κολομβίας”
  • Greek: “Βικτώρια”
  • Gujarati: “વિક્ટોરિયા”
  • Hebrew: “ויקטוריה”
  • Hindi: “विक्टोरिया”
  • Hungarian: “Victoria”
  • Icelandic: “Victoría”
  • Icelandic: “Viktoría”
  • Ido: “Victoria, British Columbia”
  • Ido: “Victoria”
  • Indonesian: “Victoria, British Columbia”
  • Indonesian: “Victoria”
  • Interlingue: “Victoria”
  • Irish: “Victoria, an Cholóim Bhriotanach”
  • Irish: “Victoria”
  • Italian: “Victoria”
  • Japanese: “ヴィクトリア”
  • Japanese: “ビクトリア”
  • Kalaallisut: “Victoria”
  • Kannada: “ವಿಕ್ಟೋರಿಯ”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Виктория”
  • Kazakh: “Виктория (Британдық Колумбия)”
  • Kazakh: “Виктория”
  • Korean: “빅토리아”
  • Latin: “Victoria (urbs)”
  • Latin: “Victoria”
  • Latvian: “Viktorija”
  • Ligurian: “Victoria (Canada)”
  • Ligurian: “Victoria”
  • Lithuanian: “Viktorija”
  • Malagasy: “Victoria”
  • Malay: “Victoria, British Columbia”
  • Malay: “Victoria”
  • Malayalam: “വിക്ടോറിയ, ബ്രിട്ടീഷ് കൊളമ്പിയ”
  • Marathi: “व्हिक्टोरिया”
  • Mazanderani: “ویکتریا (بریتانیائیج کلمبیا)”
  • Mazanderani: “ویکتریا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Victoria”
  • Nepali: “भिक्टोरिया”
  • Northern Frisian: “Victoria (British Columbia)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Victoria”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Victoria”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Victoria i British Columbia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Victoria i Britisk Columbia”
  • Norwegian: “Victoria”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Victòria”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Fictoria on Bryttiscum Columbie”
  • Ossetian: “Виктори”
  • Panjabi: “ਵਿਕਟੋਰੀਆ, ਬ੍ਰਿਟਿਸ਼ ਕੋਲੰਬੀਆ”
  • Panjabi: “ਵਿਕਟੋਰੀਆ”
  • Persian: “ویکتوریا، بریتیش کلمبیا”
  • Persian: “ویکتوریا”
  • Polish: “Victoria”
  • Portuguese: “Victoria”
  • Portuguese: “Vitória, Colúmbia Britânica”
  • Portuguese: “Vitória”
  • Quechua: “Victoria”
  • Romanian: “Victoria BC”
  • Romanian: “Victoria, Columbia Britanică”
  • Romanian: “Victoria”
  • Russian: “Виктория”
  • Sardinian: “Victòria”
  • Scots: “Victoria, Breetish Columbie”
  • Scots: “Victoria”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Victoria, Columbia Bhreatannach”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Victoria”
  • Serbian: “Викторија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Victoria, Britanska Kolumbija”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Victoria”
  • Silesian: “Victoria (Kanada)”
  • Silesian: “Victoria”
  • Sinhala: “වික්ටෝරියා”
  • Slovak: “Victoria”
  • Slovenian: “Victoria, Britanska Kolumbija”
  • Slovenian: “Victoria”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ویکتوریا، بریتیش کولومبیا”
  • Spanish: “Victoria (Columbia Británica)”
  • Spanish: “Victoria”
  • Swahili: “Victoria, British Kolumbia”
  • Swahili: “Victoria”
  • Swedish: “Victoria, British Columbia”
  • Swedish: “Victoria”
  • Tagalog: “Victoria, British Columbia”
  • Tagalog: “Victoria”
  • Tajik: “Виктория”
  • Tamil: “விக்டோரியா, பிரிட்டிசு கொலம்பியா”
  • Tamil: “விக்டோரியா”
  • Tatar: “Виктория (Британ Колумбиясе)”
  • Tatar: “Виктория”
  • Telugu: “విక్టోరియా”
  • Thai: “วิกตอเรีย”
  • Thai: “วิกทอเรีย”
  • Tumbuka: “Victoria”
  • Turkish: “Victoria, Britanya Kolumbiyası”
  • Turkish: “Victoria”
  • Uighur: “Wiktoriye, Britani Kolumbiye”
  • Uighur: “Wiktoriye”
  • Ukrainian: “Вікторія”
  • Urdu: “وکٹوریا، برٹش کولمبیا”
  • Uzbek: “Viktoriya”
  • Venetian: “Victoria”
  • Vietnamese: “Victoria, British Columbia”
  • Vietnamese: “Victoria”
  • Vlaams: “Victoria (Brits-Columbia)”
  • Vlaams: “Victoria”
  • Volapük: “Victoria”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Victoria, British Columbia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Victoria”
  • Welsh: “Victoria”
  • Western Frisian: “Victoria (Britsk-Kolumbia)”
  • Western Frisian: “Victoria”
  • Western Panjabi: “وکٹوریا، برٹش کولمبیا”
  • Western Panjabi: “وکٹوریا”
  • Wu Chinese: “维多利亚 (不列颠哥伦比亚)”
  • Wu Chinese: “维多利亚（不列颠哥伦比亚）”
  • Yue Chinese: “域多利”

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