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Originally Posted by tshalk
Vancouver has an actual population of less than 700,000, it's all the smaller cities and towns around it that give the greater area a population of 2 million.
Montreal's real population is about 1.6 million but with surrounding suburbs the area is over 3 million.
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The metropolitan area of Vancouver is actually nearly 2.5 million, while Montreal's is approximately 4.1 million.
Just read on an article about the Green Line that the City of Calgary is projected to reach 1.9 million people by 2043, that's only 28 years. Pretty amazing. Assuming that is within our current border, and that our surrounding metropolitan region grows at a similar rate, we'd be looking at a total metropolitan population of around 2.5 million.