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.

Regional Districts of Northern BC	% Area	% Pop
Bulkley-Nechako	8.34	1.05
Cariboo	8.85	1.68
Fraser-Fort George	5.58	2.44
Kitimat-Stikine	10.61	1.05
Northern Rockies	9.2	0.15
Peace River	12.8	1.41
Skeena-Queen Charlotte	2.14	0.56
Stikine

The Other Regional Districts of BC	% Area	% Pop
Alberni-Clayoquo	0.74	0.78
Capital	0.26	8.34
Central Coast	2.70	0.10
Central Kootenay	2.48	1.46
Central Okanagan	0.33	3.78
Columbia Shuswap	3.23	1.23
Comox-Strathcona	2.18	2.46
Cowichan Valley	0.38	1.84
East Kootenay	2.96	1.44
Fraser Valley	1.49	6.08
Greater Vancouver	0.36	50.85
Kootenay Boundry	0.89	0.81
Mount Waddington	2.17	0.34
Nanaimo	0.22	3.25
North Okanagan	0.85	1.87
Okanagan-Similkameen	1.18	1.96
Powell River	0.56	0.51
Squamish-Lillooet	1.79	0.84
Sunshine Coast	0.41	0.66
Thompson-Nicola	4.86	3.05