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Vancouver is a city located in southwest British Columbia, Canada. The city was named in honor of Captain George Vancouver, an English explorer. It's part of the metropolitan area of Greater Vancouver Regional District, which, with a population of 2,180,737 habitants (2006 estimate), is the largest metropolitan area in the west Canadian and the third in the country after Toronto and Montreal. Vancouver itself has 587,891 habitants of many different ethnic backgrounds: the mother tongue of more than half of its residents is not English. The city is growing rapidly (information 2007) and it is expected that the metropolitan population reaches 2.6 billion by 2020. Official name: Republic used to refer to residents of Vancouver is vancuverita (in English vancouverite).

Vancouver is among Strait of Georgia and the Coastal Mountains. Its economy has traditionally depended primary sector of British Columbia: forestry, mining, fisheries and agriculture. The town was originally founded in the decade from 1860 as a result of immigration caused by the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, and is quickly developing into a metropolitan center after the arrival of Canadian Pacific Railway in 1887.

The port of Vancouver to be internationally significant step when they complete the Panama Canal, which reduced freight rates in the years 1920 and made feasible the export of grain crops of the Canadian Prairies through the city. Since then he has been the most important seaport in Canada and exports more cargo than any other port in North America.

However, the economy of Vancouver has diversified over time has grown the tourism industry, for example, and has become the third center of film production most important Nortemerica, after Los Angeles and New York, won the Hollywood North. Vancouver nickname is considered one of the three cities with better quality of life in the world. In 2006, won the 56 th position among the cities in which they live is more expensive, being exceeded only by Toronto in Canada; this list included 144 major cities around the world.

The 2010 Olympic Games will take place in Vancouver and in the nearby town of Whistler.

GEOGRAPHY

Vancouver is located beside the Strait of Georgia, which separate it from Vancouver Island. It is located in the Pacific time zone (UTC-8) and the Pacific Maritime ecozones. The city is part of the Burrard Peninsula and is among the incoming Burrard (north) and the Fraser River River (South). For those who do not know the area, it may be surprising that Vancouver is not on Vancouver Island. Both the island and the city (and which has the same name in the U.S.) named the captain of the Royal Navy, George Vancouver, which explore the region in 1792.

Vancouver has an area of 114.67 square kilometres, including flat land and hills. Vancouver is located in an area of humid climate and surrounded by water, although historical records which had comprised about fifty creeks and streams in the area, are now only four.

INTERESTING FACTS

Vancouver has a large ethnic diversity and racial communities there are Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Iranian and Indian major, like a large number of British immigrants, Germans, the former Yugoslavia and a good number of Filipinos.

Vancouver concentrates a Spanish-speaking population of 22,470, according to the 2001 census. It is one of the most dynamic communities in Canada.

Its port is the second in the North American continent and the most important of Canada, in volume and quantity of goods. It is also terminal railways Canadians from Montreal, which has been of great historic importance for the city.

In Vancouver is located the headquarters of the University of British Columbia.

Vancouver is located at 49 ° 16 'north latitude and 123 ° 7' west, on the coast of Canada on the Pacific Ocean. The city will host the Winter Olympic Games 2010. Its climate is the most moderate of Canada.

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