West Vancouver

West Vancouver is a suburban area of 's North Shore in the of , . It has a few good parks, excellent hikes and some of the most expensive property in Canada.
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  • Type: City with 44,100 residents
  • Description: district municipality of British Columbia, Canada
  • Also known as: “West Vancouver, BC” and “West Vancouver, British Columbia”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Park Royal Shopping Centre and Lions Gate Bridge.

Shopping center
, also known as simply Park Royal, opened in 1950, is a located in West Vancouver and X̱wemelch'stn, , Canada.

Bridge
Photo: Bobanny, Public domain.
The , opened in 1938 and officially known as the First Narrows Bridge, is a suspension bridge that crosses the first narrows of and connects the City of , British Columbia, to the municipalities of the , the , and West Vancouver.

Lighthouse
Photo: Colin Knowles, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a lighthouse.

West Vancouver

Latitude
49.3311° or 49° 19′ 52″ north
Longitude
-123.1595° or 123° 9′ 34″ west
Population
44,100
Elevation
26 metres (85 feet)
United Nations Location Code
CA WVR
Open location code
84XR8RJR+C6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 52556923
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
8533869
Wiki­data ID
Q991329
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Frisian—“West Vancouver” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “West Vankuver”
  • Arabic: “فانكوفر الغربية، كولومبيا البريطانية”
  • Arabic: “فانكوفر الغربية”
  • Bengali: “ওয়েস্ট ভ্যানকুভার”
  • Bulgarian: “Западен Ванкувър”
  • Catalan: “West Vancouver”
  • Cebuano: “West Vancouver”
  • Chinese: “西温哥华”
  • Chinese: “西温哥华区”
  • Chinese: “西溫”
  • Chinese: “西溫區”
  • Chinese: “西溫哥華”
  • Czech: “West Vancouver”
  • Dagbani: “West Vancouver”
  • Danish: “West Vancouver”
  • Dutch: “West Vancouver”
  • Esperanto: “Okcidenta Vankuvero”
  • Esperanto: “West Vancouver”
  • Finnish: “West Vancouver”
  • French: “Vancouver Ouest”
  • French: “West Vancouver”
  • German: “West Vancouver”
  • Greek: “Γουέστ Βανκούβερ”
  • Greek: “Δυτικό Βανκούβερ”
  • Gujarati: “વેસ્ટ વાનકુવર”
  • Hebrew: “מערב ונקובר”
  • Hindi: “वेस्ट वैंकूवर”
  • Indonesian: “Vancouver Barat”
  • Italian: “West Vancouver”
  • Japanese: “ウェストバンクーバー”
  • Japanese: “ウエストバンクーバー”
  • Japanese: “ウエストバンクーバー地区”
  • Japanese: “ウエストバンクーバー市”
  • Kannada: “ವೆಸ್ಟ್ ವ್ಯಾಂಕೋವರ್”
  • Korean: “웨스트 밴쿠버”
  • Korean: “웨스트밴쿠버”
  • Latvian: “Vestvankūvera”
  • Lithuanian: “Vakarų Vankuveris”
  • Malagasy: “West Vancouver”
  • Malay: “West Vancouver”
  • Marathi: “वेस्ट व्हँकुव्हर”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “West Vancouver”
  • Norwegian: “West Vancouver”
  • Persian: “وست ونکوور”
  • Persian: “ونکوور غربی”
  • Polish: “West Vancouver”
  • Portuguese: “West Vancouver”
  • Russian: “Вест-Ванкувер”
  • Sinhala: “බටහිර වැන්කුවර්”
  • Slovak: “West Vancouver”
  • Slovenian: “West Vancouver”
  • Spanish: “West Vancouver (Columbia Británica)”
  • Spanish: “West Vancouver”
  • Swedish: “West Vancouver”
  • Tamil: “மேற்கு வான்குவெர்”
  • Telugu: “వెస్ట్ వాంకోవర్”
  • Thai: “เวสต์แวนคูเวอร์”
  • Turkish: “West Vancouver”
  • Ukrainian: “Вест-Ванкувер”
  • Ukrainian: “Західний Ванкувер”
  • Urdu: “ویسٹ وینکوور”
  • Vietnamese: “Tây Vancouver”
  • Western Frisian: “West Vancouver”
  • “West Vancouver”

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