Vancouver

About Vancouver

Population

631,486 in city
2,285,893 in metro

Size

114 km² (44 mi²)

Altitude

50.902218971 m

This vibrant and spirited city is one of the world's top motion picture and television production centres. Located in a breathtakingly gorgeous setting, it is the busiest seaport in Canada and the country's third largest metro area. Ranked as one of the best cities to live anywhere by one Quality of Life survey after another, this city on the rise was host of the successful 2010 Olympics. Biggest city in the northwest corner of North America, it is one of only three major cities in the world without a dominant ethic or cultural group. Cosmopolitan people are reason for the slogan, Once in a world a city like Vancouver. The skyline is dramatic evidence of a unique and lasting love affair with the high-rise condo. Per capita no city in North America has as many residential high-rises, with Concord Pacific Place, the continent's largest master-planned community, a major contributor to the claim. Vancouverites will pay for views of the mountains and water and, with nowhere to grow but up, demand has created a downtown peninsula home to 100,000 residents. Opening the 21st century with a mega-boom unprecedented in its history, building construction hit an all-time high forcing office vacancy rates to near zero. Population density is highest on the continent after New York, San Francisco, and Mexico City, and on track to being second by 2021. Writer Lance Berelowitz in Dream City began his epilogue with, "Vancouver has always been a seductress, a city of desire. It is now consciously selling itself as such on the global marketplace of cities. And many are buying."

Zones

Coal Harbour (31), Concord Pacific Place (60), Pacific Centre (9), Southeast False Creek (19)

Boroughs

Arbutus Ridge (22), Downtown (638), Downtown Eastside (38), Fairview (151), Grandview-Woodland (8), Hastings-Sunrise (9), Kensington-Cedar Cottage (7), Kerrisdale (18), Killarney (5), Kitsilano (24), Marpole (11), Mount Pleasant (69), Oakridge (12), Renfrew-Collingwood (25), Riley Park-Little Mountain (2), Shaughnessy (1), South Cambie (2), Strathcona (21), Sunset (1), Victoria-Fraserview (1), West End (376), West Point Grey (12)

Metro Cities

Burnaby, Coquitlam, Delta, Langley, Maple Ridge, New Westminster, North Vancouver, Pitt Meadows, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody, Richmond, Surrey, Township of Langley, University Endowment Lands, Vancouver, West Vancouver, White Rock

No. of Buildings

No.	Current status
1,472	All Buildings
1,362	existing
20	under construction
58	planned
18	unbuilt
14	demolished

Tallest Buildings

#	Building	Height	Year
1	Living Shangri-La	659 ft	2008
2	Trump International Hotel & Tower Vancouver	616 ft	2016
3	Vancouver House	615 ft	2019
4	The Private Residences at Hotel Georgia	517 ft	2012
5	One Wall Centre	491 ft	2001

Building types

No.	Type
700	high-rise building
656	low-rise building
79	skyscraper
10	bridge
7	church
5	stadium
5	observation tower
3	monumental hall
2	open-air structure
2	house
1	monument
1	telecommunications tower
1	clock/bell tower

Other buildings

No.	Type
30	Famous buildings
74	Buildings with construction images