Regional Districts

The following table lists the regional districts of British Columbia. Click on the regional districts title to visit their official website. Included in the table are the percentage of land area and the percentage of the total population of British Columbia.

You will notice that although the regional districts of Northern British Columbia make up 57.5% of the land mass, it only holds 8.3% of the provincal population. There in lies the root cause of inequality between the heartland and the lower mainland.

Lower Mainland Regional Districts	% Area	% Pop
Alberni-Clayoquo	0.74	0.78
Capital	0.26	8.34
Central Kootenay	2.48	1.46
Comox-Strathcona	2.18	2.46
Cowichan Valley	0.38	1.84
Fraser Valley	1.49	6.08
Greater Vancouver	0.36	50.85
Mount Waddington	2.17	0.34
Nanaimo	0.22	3.25
Powell River	0.56	0.51
Sunshine Coast	0.41	0.66

The Other Regional Districts of BC	% Area	% Pop
Bulkley-Nechako	8.34	1.05
Cariboo	8.85	1.68
Central Coast	2.70	0.10
Central Okanagan	0.33	3.78
Columbia Shuswap	3.23	1.23
East Kootenay	2.96	1.44
Fraser-Fort George	5.58	2.44
Kitimat-Stikine	10.61	1.05
Kootenay Boundry	0.89	0.81
North Okanagan	0.85	1.87
Northern Rockies	9.20	0.15
Okanagan-Similkameen	1.18	1.96
Peace River	12.80	1.41
Skeena-Queen Charlotte	2.14	0.56
Squamish-Lillooet	1.79	0.84
Stikine
Thompson-Nicola	4.86	3.05