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Originally Posted by someone123
Statistics Canada has economic regions too. This is on the level of the Lower Mainland rather than metro Vancouver. I wouldn't call Chilliwack a suburb of Vancouver though; to be a classic suburb of a city a significant percentage of the daytime population or commuters in an area need to go to that other city.
Admittedly this has all gotten a lot murkier with suburban jobs and remote work.
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Way I see it is that the Vancouver area can be divided up 3 ways.
1) Core Vancouver which I see as the city of Vancouver, Burnaby, New Westminster, the north shore, tri cities, and richmond. Overall theres about 1.8 million people here.
2) Greater Vancouver regional district which is around 2.7 million people, it terminates near abbotsford
3) Lower Mainland, this term is used most in media and seems to imply everything from vancouver to chilliwack to also possibly include squamish. about 3 million people.
I usually use a 4th version for my descriptions, a 2.5) if you will. Way I see it Greater Vancouver should be extended east to include mission and abbotsford, combined thats an additional 200k within the greater vancouver area, so realistically the urban population of Greater vancouver is just 100k shy of 3 million people in 2020.
why do I include abbostford? Abbotsford is connected strongly with langley and surrey and mission, which itself is closely connected to maple ridge which is tied closely to the try cities.
Abbotsford doesn't seem to have it's own core and the city itself is increasingly serving as a cheaper bedroom community for metro vancouverites.