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Originally Posted by isaidso
I used to think that Vancouver was too hemmed in to ever be a metro of 10 million+ but there's quite a bit of land there. The Lower Mainland is 36,303 km2. That's larger than Belgium (32,545 km2) and only slightly smaller than the Netherlands (41,526 km2). Vancouver could protect all that farmland and easily quadruple in population. It all depends on how Vancouver grows.
The Lower Mainland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Mainland |
That number is wildly off when describing Metro Vancouver or even the entire Lower Mainland.
The link seems to describe an 'economic region' and I'm still not sure how it manages to hit 36,303 km2. What is outlined above is nowhere near 36,000 km2.
The
Metro Vancouver Regional District, which encompasses a considerable portion of the area outlined above is 2,882.68 km2. That's only 8% of the 36,303 km2 in the alleged Lower Mainland economic Region.
2,463,431 (2016) people live in Metro Vancouver Regional District, and a further 295,934 in the 13,361.74 km² area of the
Fraser Valley Regional District which is
far, far larger than what is outlined above. Combined, we've accounted for the entirety of the 2,759,365 population of the Lower Mainland Economic Region but still have 20,059 km2 of totally uninhabited land for which to account outside of Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley.
What's the point of quoting 36,303 km2 when more than half of that is totally unpopulated and essentially all economic activity occurs within Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley?
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Here is Belgium superimposed at the same scale over Metro Vancouver:
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