Mission
Mission is a town and district municipality of about 39,000 people in the Fraser Valley region of British Columbia. It was founded in 1892 in the land of the Stó:lō First Nations people.Photo: Andybremner2012, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Purpy Pupple, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 41,500 residents
- Description: city in British Columbia, Canada
- Neighbors: Abbotsford and Maple Ridge
Notable Places in the Area
Ferndale Institution
Prison
Ferndale Institution is the former name of the minimum-security federal correctional annex of Mission Institution, now referred as Mission Minimum Institution.
Mission Institution
Prison
Mission Institution is a minimum and medium security federal institution within the Correctional Service of Canada and is located in Mission, British Columbia.
X̱á:ytem
Historic site
Photo: Klawrence1987, CC BY-SA 3.0.
X̱á:ytem is an indigenous archaeological site and the name of a related museum run under the auspices of the Stoːlo people at Hatzic, British Columbia, Canada.
Mission
- Categories: city, human settlement, railway point in Canada and locality
- Location: Mission, Fraser Valley Regional District, British Columbia, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
49.1589° or 49° 9' 32" northLongitude
-122.2836° or 122° 17' 1" westPopulation
41,500Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)United Nations Location Code
CA MIBOpen Location Code
84XV5P58+HHOpenStreetMap ID
node 273649926OpenStreetMap Feature
place=townGeoNames ID
6075292Wikidata ID
Q557643Mission Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: ميشن (كولومبيا البريطانية)
- Arabic: ميشن
- Asturian: Mission
- Belarusian: Мішн
- Chinese: 米逊
- Chinese: 米遜
- Danish: Mission
- Dutch: Mission
- English: City of Mission
- English: Mission, BC
- English: Mission, British Columbia
- French: Mission
- French: Mission (Colombie-Britannique)
- French: Mission, Colombie-Britannique
- German: Mission
- German: Mission (Britisch-Kolumbien)
- Greek: Μίσιον (Βρετανική Κολομβία)
- Greek: Μίσιον
- Haitian: Misyon
- Hebrew: מישן
- Irish: Mission (an Cholóim Bhriotanach)
- Irish: Mission
- Italian: Mission
- Japanese: ミッション (英領コロンビア州)
- Japanese: ミッション
- Korean: 미션
- Kurdish: Mission, Kolumbiya Brîtanî
- Kurdish: Mission
- Norwegian: Mission
- Norwegian Bokmål: Mission
- Occitan (post 1500): Mission
- Slovenian: Mission
- Spanish: Mission
- Spanish: Mission (Columbia Británica)
- Swedish: Mission
- Ukrainian: Мішн
- Urdu: مشن
- Urdu: مشن، برٹش کولمبیا
- Yue Chinese: 米遜
Other Places Named Mission
Localities in the Area
- HatzicSuburb
- RiversideSuburb, 4 km south
- West HeightsSuburb, 4½ km southwest
- RidgedaleSuburb, 5 km southeast
- MatsquiSuburb, 6 km south
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Mission. Photo: Purpy Pupple, CC BY-SA 3.0.