Lower Mainland

The Lower Mainland (French: Les Basses-terres (continentales); IPA: [le bas.tɛːr kɔ̃tjinɑ̃tal] ), officially the Lower Mainland Regional Municipality, is the most populous upper-tier municipality in the Canadian province of British Columbia (BC). It consists almost entirely of the metropolitan area centred on the city of Vancouver, BC's most populous city and lower-tier municipality, and its administrative seat is Burnaby. According to the 2021 census, the Lower Mainland has a total population of 8,833,605, accounting for more than half of British Columbia's total population of 15.56 million.