page_title: Metro Vancouver Regional District
section_title: Membership
hierarchical_section_title: Metro Vancouver Regional District / Membership
caption_attribution_description: Burnaby Metrotown from the air
context_page_description: Metro Vancouver is a political body and corporate entity designated by provincial legislation as one of the regional districts in British Columbia, Canada. The official legal name is the Metro Vancouver Regional District. The organization was known as the Regional District of Fraser–Burrard for nearly one year upon incorporating in 1967, and as the Greater Vancouver Regional District from 1968 to 2017.
  The MVRD is under the direction of 23 local authorities; it delivers regional services, sets policy and acts as a political forum. The regional district's most populous city is Vancouver, and Metro Vancouver's administrative offices are located in the City of Burnaby. The MVRD's boundaries match those of the Vancouver census metropolitan area as identified by Statistics Canada. Metro Vancouver borders Whatcom County, Washington to the south, the Fraser Valley Regional District to the east, the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District to the north, and the Strait of Georgia to the west.
context_section_description: This regional district comprises 23 local authorities as members: 21 municipalities, one electoral area and one treaty First Nation.
  Electoral Area A comprises all unincorporated land within the regional district boundaries, which totals about 818 square kilometres. Most of the area is in the northernmost part of the district, including residential areas and isolated dwellings on Howe Sound between Lions Bay and Horseshoe Bay, on Indian Arm to the north of Deep Cove and Belcarra/Anmore and on the west side of Pitt Lake to the north of Port Coquitlam. Other areas included are Barnston Island on the Fraser River, Passage Island between Bowen Island and West Vancouver, and finally the urban communities of the University of British Columbia and the University Endowment Lands, in which 98% of the population of Electoral Area A lives.
  There are also seventeen Indian reserves within the geographical area that are not subject to governance by local authorities or the regional district; they have a combined population of 7,550 (2006).
  The cities of Abbotsford and Chilliwack and the district of Mission, located to the east, although often linked to Vancouver in promotions and tourism, are part of a separate regional district, the Fraser Valley Regional District.
caption: Burnaby is the third-most populated city in Metro Vancouver with a population of 232,755 (2016).
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