Question: How many municipalities lie in the regional district of British Columbia with Victoria as a head office location ?

text: List of regional districts of British Columbia
Current regional districts

The Canadian province of British Columbia is partitioned into regional districts, as a means to better enable municipalities and rural areas to work together at a regional level. Similar to counties in other parts of Canada, regional districts serve only to provide municipal services as the local government in areas not incorporated into a municipality, and in certain regional affairs of shared concern between residents of unincorporated areas and those in the municipalities such as a stakeholder role in regional planning. In those predominantly rural areas, regional districts provide services such as land use planning, building inspection and some responsibility for community fire protection. Regional districts also provide some services, such as solid-waste management, but otherwise differ from counties in having no powers or similar bodies with other arms of government whose powers are much more sweeping, including forests, environment, health, schools, provincial and courts. They are not the equivalent of counties and their powers and democratic mandate are substantially weaker. Most land within a regional district is under control of other arms of the provincial government, or in the case of national parks and offshore waters, of the federal government. Indian reserves located within the boundaries of regional districts are likewise excluded from their jurisdiction and infrastructure, and there are varying levels of collaboration between First Nations governments and regional district boards. Regional districts are governed by boards of directly and indirectly elected directors. Municipalities appoint directors to represent their populations (usually the mayors), while residents of unincorporated areas (which are grouped into electoral areas) elect directors directly. The votes of directors from municipalities generally count more than the votes of directors from electoral areas, and larger municipalities have more votes than smaller ones. For example, both North Saanich and Metchosin appoint one director to the Capital Regional District board of directors, but the vote of North Saanich's director counts three times as much as the vote of Metchosin's appointee.
Name Population ( 2016 ) Area ( km² ) Density ( /km² ) Head office location
Alberni-Clayoquot 30,981 6,588 4.7 Port Alberni
Bulkley-Nechako 37,896 73,361 0.52 Burns Lake
Capital 383,360 2,340 163.8 Victoria
Cariboo 61,988 80,609 0.77 Williams Lake
Central Coast 3,319 24,492 0.14 Bella Coola
Central Kootenay 59,517 22,095 2.7 Nelson
Central Okanagan 194,882 2,905 67.1 Kelowna
Columbia-Shuswap 51,366 28,929 1.8 Salmon Arm
Comox Valley 66,527 1,701 39.1 Courtenay
Cowichan Valley 83,739 3,475 24.1 Duncan
East Kootenay 60,439 27,543 2.2 Cranbrook
Fraser Valley 295,934 13,335 22.2 Chilliwack
Fraser-Fort George 94,506 50,676 1.9 Prince George
Kitimat-Stikine 37,367 104,461 0.36 Terrace
Kootenay Boundary 31,447 8,082 3.9 Trail
Metro Vancouver 2,463,431 2,883 854.5 Burnaby
Mount Waddington 11,035 20,244 0.55 Port McNeill
Nanaimo 155,698 2,038 76.4 Nanaimo
North Coast 18,133 19,781 0.92 Prince Rupert
North Okanagan 84,354 7,503 11.2 Coldstream