page_title: Kelowna
section_title: Culture and sport
hierarchical_section_title: Kelowna / Culture and sport
caption_attribution_description: English: A photo take in Kelowna, B.C.
context_page_description: Kelowna is a city on Okanagan Lake in the Okanagan Valley in the southern interior of British Columbia, Canada. It serves as the head office of the Regional District of the Central Okanagan. The name Kelowna derives from an Okanagan language word for "grizzly bear".
  Kelowna is the province's third-largest metropolitan area, its largest inland city, and its seventh-largest city overall. It is the 22nd-largest city in Canada. The city proper encompasses 211.82 square kilometres, and the census metropolitan area 2,904.86 square kilometres. In 2019, it was estimated Kelowna's population had grown to 217,229 in the metropolitan area and 142,146 in the city proper.
  Nearby communities include the City of West Kelowna to the west, across Okanagan Lake; Lake Country and Vernon to the north; Peachland to the southwest; and Summerland and Penticton to the south.
context_section_description: Westbank First Nation
  Kelowna Rockets – Western Hockey League (Winners of the 2004 Memorial Cup)
  Okanagan Sun – Canadian Junior Football League (Winners of the 1988 and 2000 Canadian Bowl)
  Okanagan Challenge – Pacific Coast Soccer League
  Kelowna Falcons – West Coast Collegiate Baseball League
  Center of Gravity Festival
  Kelowna Hydrofest- American Boat Racing Association (Largest professional boat racing series in Canada)
  Okanagan All Stars Hockey Club
  World Community Film Festival
caption: Kelowna Marina
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