Vancouver
Vancouver occupies a pretty enviable spot in the world. Blessed with miles of coastline, lush vegetation and crowned by the North Shore Mountains, it's hard to be there and not stop at some point and be amazed by what you see.Photo: Thom Quine, CC BY 2.0.
Photo: Mfield, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Popular Destinations
City Centre
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The City Centre, 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.
Kitsilano-Granville Island
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Kitsilano, South Granville and Granville Island form most of the northern part of the Vancouver west side.
West End
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The West End of Vancouver is one of the most popular places to hang out in the city.
Destinations
Gastown-Chinatown
Photo: Shaundd, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gastown and Chinatown are in the east end of downtown Vancouver between downtown and East Van.
Commercial Dr-Hastings Park
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Commercial Drive-Hastings Park makes up part of "East Vancouver".
Yaletown-False Creek
Photo: Thom Quine, CC BY 2.0.
Yaletown-False Creek encompasses the established neighbourhood of Yaletown and the still-developing area of Southeast False Creek.
UBC-Point Grey
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UBC-Point Grey is a district in the west side of Vancouver occupying a pretty spot at the tip of the Point Grey peninsula.
South Vancouver
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Vancouver South covers the southern portion of Vancouver.
Mt Pleasant-South Main
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Mount Pleasant-South Main is a district of Vancouver south of 6th Ave.
Notable Places in the Area
BC Place
Stadium
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BC Place is a multi-purpose stadium in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Rogers Arena
Stadium
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Rogers Arena is a multi-purpose arena located at 800 Griffiths Way in the downtown area of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Pacific Central Station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Pacific Central Station is a railway station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, which acts…
Localities in the Area
Gastown
Neighbourhood
Photo: Jennie Robinson, CC BY 2.0.
Gastown is the original settlement that became the core of the city of Vancouver, British Columbia…
Granville Island
Neighbourhood
Photo: Zhatt, Public domain.
Granville Island is a peninsula and shopping district in the Fairview neighbourhood of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, across False Creek from Downtown Vancouver, under the south end of the Granville Street Bridge.
Kitsilano
Suburb
Photo: Flying Penguin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kitsilano, South Granville and Granville Island form most of the northern part of the Vancouver west side.
Vancouver
- Type: City with 662,000 residents
- Description: largest city in British Columbia, Canada
- Neighbors: Burnaby, North Vancouver, Richmond and West Vancouver
- Categories: big city, city in British Columbia, border town and locality
- Location: Metro Vancouver Regional District, Lower Mainland, British Columbia, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
49.2609° or 49° 15' 39" northLongitude
-123.114° or 123° 6' 50" westPopulation
662,000Elevation
70 metres (230 feet)IATA airport code
YVRUnited Nations Location Code
CA VANOpen Location Code
84XR7V6P+8COpenStreetMap ID
node 52553466OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
6173331Wikidata ID
Q24639Vancouver Satellite Map
© OpenStreetMap, Mapbox and Maxar
Also Known As
- Achinese: Vancouver
- Afar: Vankuver
- Afrikaans: Vancouver
- Albanian: Vancouver
- Albanian: Vankuvër
- Amharic: ቫንኩቨር
- Arabic: Vancouver
- Arabic: فانكوفر
- Arabic: فنكوفر
- Aragonese: Vancouver
- Armenian: Վանկուվեր
- Armenian: Վանքուվըր
- 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: Vancouver
- Egyptian Arabic: فانكوفر
- Egyptian Arabic: ڤانكوڤر
- English: City of Vancouver
- English: Vancouver, BC
- English: Vancouver, British Columbia
- Erzya: Ванкувер ош
- Esperanto: Vancouver
- Esperanto: Vankuvero
- Estonian: Vancouver
- Faroese: Vancouver
- Finnish: Vancouver
- French: Vancouver
- Galician: Vancouver
- Georgian: ვანკუვერი
- German: Vancouver
- Greek: Βανκούβερ
- Guarani: Vangúve
- Gujarati: વાનકુવર
- 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: バンクーバー
- Japanese: バンクーバー市
- Japanese: ヴァンクーヴァー
- Japanese: 晩香坡
- Javanese: Vancouver
- Kalaallisut: Vancouver
- Kannada: ವಾಂಕೂವರ್
- Kannada: ವ್ಯಾನ್ ಕೋವರ್
- Kara-Kalpak: Vankuver
- Kazakh: Ванковер
- Kazakh: Ванкувер, Б.К.
- Kazakh: Ванкувер, БК
- Kazakh: Ванкувер, Британдық Колумбия
- Kazakh: Ванкувер
- Kazakh: Ванкувер БК
- Kazakh: Ванкувер Канада
- Kazakh: Ванкувер қаласы
- 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
- 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: Vancouver
- Norwegian Bokmål: Vancouver
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Vancouver
- Occitan (post 1500): Vancouver
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Vancouver
- Oriya: ଭାଙ୍କୁଭର
- Oriya: ଭାଙ୍କୋଭର
- Ossetian: Ванкувер
- Panjabi: ਵੈਂਕੂਵਰ
- Panjabi: ਵੈਨਕੂਵਰ
- Pennsylvania German: Vancouver
- Persian: ونکور
- Persian: ونکوور
- Persian: ونکوور، بریتیش کلمبیا
- Picard: Vancouver
- Piemontese: Vancouver
- Polish: Vancouver
- Portuguese: Cidade de Vancouver
- Portuguese: Vancouver
- Portuguese: Vancouver, Colúmbia Britânica
- Portuguese: Vancôver
- Quechua: Vancouver
- Romanian: Vancouver, Canada
- Romanian: Vancouver
- Russian: Vancouver
- Russian: Ванкувер
- Sardinian: Vancouver
- 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: Ciudad de Vancouver
- Spanish: Vancouver
- Spanish: Vancouver (Columbia Britanica)
- Spanish: Vancúver
- 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
- 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
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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 Vancouver. Photo: Mfield, CC BY-SA 3.0.