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Metro Vancouver Regional District

Anmore, Belcarra, Bowen Island, Burnaby, Coquitlam, Delta, Langley, Langley, Lions Bay, Maple Ridge, New Westminster, North Vancouver, North Vancouver, Pitt Meadows, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody, Richmond, Surrey, Vancouver, West Vancouver and White Rock and 1 electoral area, 2,987 km² in all. 2,632,013 people lived in them in 2021, up 7.2% from 2016, not counting First Nations reserves, which the census counts on their own. 20% of the land is in the farmland reserve, and under 0.1% has burned in a mapped wildfire since 1996.

The Metro Vancouver Regional District's places. Tap one for its page, or zoom in to see its lots and open one's dossier

Its places

Each place's page has its land, hazards, wells, climate, tax and census facts. Listed by name, not ranked.

PlacePeople, 2021LandIn the farmland reserveBurned since 1996
Anmore
village		2,35629 km²nonenone
Belcarra
village		6876 km²nonenone
Bowen Island
island municipality		4,25651 km²3.6%none
Burnaby
city		249,12591 km²2.6%none
Coquitlam
city		148,625130 km²6.3%0.1%
Delta
city		108,455186 km²51%0.4%
Langley
district municipality		132,603315 km²74%none
Langley
city		28,96310 km²4%none
Lions Bay
village		1,3903 km²nonenone
Maple Ridge
city		90,990286 km²13%none
New Westminster
city		78,91618 km²nonenone
North Vancouver
district municipality		88,168163 km²nonenone
North Vancouver
city		58,12012 km²nonenone
Pitt Meadows
city		19,14696 km²71%none
Port Coquitlam
city		61,49834 km²16%none
Port Moody
city		33,53526 km²nonenone
Richmond
city		209,937130 km²39%0.7%
Surrey
city		568,322324 km²29%none
Vancouver
city		662,248116 km²2.2%none
West Vancouver
district municipality		44,12289 km²noneunder 0.1%
White Rock
city		21,9395 km²nonenone
Electoral Area A18,612869 km²0.6%under 0.1%

Land and shares measured by us from the provincial maps (farmland reserve, BC Wildfire Service perimeters) over Statistics Canada's 2021 census subdivisions; people from the 2021 census.

Zoning

We have no open zoning map of the Metro Vancouver Regional District's electoral areas, so reports there don't name the zone; each area's page says what we know and whom to ask. Each of its 21 municipalities zones its own land; its page says what we show there.

Building permits

Where the Metro Vancouver Regional District's building inspection covers its electoral areas (Electoral Area A Building Administration Bylaw No. 1043, 2006): there a building permit is needed and the work is inspected.

Electoral areaCovered by building inspection
Electoral Area APart of the area
Every community but UBC and the University Endowment Lands

Our reading of Metro Vancouver's own page, checked 2026-10-07. Inside a municipality, the town or city runs its own building permits; the BC Building Code applies everywhere. Do you need a building permit on rural land?

Wildfire

No wildfire of 1,000 ha or more has burned in the Metro Vancouver Regional District's places since 1990, in the BC Wildfire Service's perimeters.

Major projects

The Environmental Assessment Office's register places 19 major projects in assessment or approved in the Metro Vancouver Regional District's places.

The register places each project at one point; a mine, pipeline or line can reach well past it. Every major project in BC by place.

Check one lot: is it in the ALR? · is it on a floodplain map? · has it burned? · how deep are the wells? · is there room for a septic field? · short-term rentals? · property tax?

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