About 370,000 people live in the Greater Victoria area , in the south of Vancouver Island .
Some other regions of greater population density outside this corridor include the Greater Victoria area on southern Vancouver Island ( with a population of approximately 370,000 ) the Okanagan Valley in the British Columbia interior ( about 350,000 people centered around the city of Kelowna , which has close to 200,000 people ) and the greater Spokane area ( with about 550,000 residents ) .
Pacific Northwest