About the Vancouver and Richmond, British Columbia Area 

Vancouver is located on the mainland of North America, in the south west corner of British Columbia, which is the westernmost of Canada's ten provinces. Greater Vancouver is made up of 18 municipalities that occupy 2,930 square kilometres on and around the Fraser River delta.  

Greater Vancouver's estimated total population for 2001 is 2 million, 49.5% of BC's population of 4.1 million.  

The City of Vancouver is quite cosmopolitan and is a mix of many multicultural groups. Because the city is multicultural, it's also multilingual on an unofficial level. Its people speak many different languages and many follow the traditions of their native lands, sometimes moderating them with Canadian culture.  

After English and Chinese, the most common mother tongue languages spoken are Punjabi, German, Italian, French, Tagalog (Filipino) and Spanish. More than half of Vancouver's school-age children have been raised speaking a language other than English.
 

The southern boundary of the City of Vancouver is the North Arm of the Fraser River, one of the largest rivers entering the Pacific. On the opposite shore of the Fraser River is the City of Richmond.  

Thirty-eight kilometres (24 miles) south of downtown Vancouver is the Canada-US boundary.  

The downtown business and shopping core of the City of Vancouver is on a smaller peninsula, with Burrard Inlet on the north, English Bay on the west and False Creek on the south.  

In Richmond, the business centre is largely retail and stretches for some distance, primarily along Number 3 Road.  

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