Victoria, Vancouver Island

Victoria is the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Vancouver Island, located at the southern end of the province's namesake main island in Esquimalt County, the province's most populous county of which Victoria is the administrative seat. With a population of approximately 855,000 in December 2020, and a metropolitan population of 1.57 million (mostly represented by municipalities in Esquimalt County and a few in neighbouring Nanaimo County), Victoria alone is home to over a third of the province's total population, and its metropolitan area over two thirds. The city is named after Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. As Vancouver Island's provincial capital, Victoria is home to the Vancouver Island Parliament Building, official meeting place of the Assembly of Vancouver Island, the unicameral provincial legislature.