Vancouver is a key city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland area of British Columbia. As one of the most heavily populated cities in the district, the 2016 demographics documented 631,486 people in the city, up from 603,502 in 2011. The Greater Vancouver location had a populace of 2,463,431 in 2016, making it the third-largest city in Canada. Vancouver has the biggest population density in Canada, with over 5,400 people per square kilometer, which makes it the fifth-most largely inhabited city with over 250,000 locals in North America, behind New York City City, Guadalajara, San Francisco, and Mexico City. Vancouver is among the most ethnically and linguistically diversified cities in Canada: 52% of its residents are foreign English speakers, 48.9% are indigenous audio speakers of neither English neither French, and 50.6% of people belong to noticeable minority groups.Vancouver is constantly called as one of the leading 5 global cities for livability and lifestyle, and the Economist Intelligence Unit recognized it as the 1st city rated amongst the leading 10 of the world’s most well-living cities for 10 successive years. Nevertheless, Vancouver also ranks as one of the most highly-priced city to reside in Canada and as the fourth-most pricey real estate market worldwide. In 2011, the city intended to become the greenest city on the planet by 2020. Vancouverism is the city’s urban planning design ideology.
Vancouver was initially called Gastown and started as a settlement which expanded around the site of a makeshift pub on the western sides of Hastings Mill that was built on July 1, 1867, and owned by owner Gassy Jack.
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