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Saanich

district municipality in British Columbia, Canada
Organization district_municipality Q179553

Facts

12 properties
Instance of
district municipality
Inception
1906[10]
Country
Canada[2]
Official website
www.saanich.ca[11]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 48.484°, -123.381°
Area
+103.78[16]
Different from
Saanich[14]
Elevation above sea level
+23[15]
Located in or next to body of water
Haro Strait[3]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Capital Regional District[1]
Population
+114148, +117735[12][13]
Shares border with
Highlands, Oak Bay, Victoria, Esquimalt, Central Saanich, View Royal[4][5][6][7][8][9]
🏷️ Also known as
en District of Saanich en Saanich en Saanich, BC en Saanich, British Columbia ar سانيتش، كولومبيا البريطانية el Σάνιτς es Saanich (Columbia Británica) fa سانیچ ja サーニッチ (ブリティッシュコロンビア州) ko 사니치 ru Саанич uk Сааніч zh 萨尼奇
🔖 Identifiers · 15
VIAF cluster ID
134786356
Library of Congress authority ID
n82200537
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Cadborobay2.jpg ↗
BC Geographical Names ID
40827
CGNDB unique ID
JAXME
Curlie ID
Regional/North_America/Canada/British_Columbia/Localities/S/Saanich/
Freebase ID
/m/01wgwd
GeoNames ID
6136944
MusicBrainz area ID
9bf75546-b699-4a74-a62f-9fecd8feccd8
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007555259205171
OpenStreetMap relation ID
2221059
Statistics Canada Geographic code
5917021
Show all 15 identifiers +3
Topic's main category
Category:Saanich, British Columbia
Who's on First ID
101741111
Yale LUX ID
place/49ae27c8-8871-46fa-b759-21d75711ea37

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🔗 Connections
Shares border with 6
Victoria, Esquimalt, View Royal, Oak Bay, Central Saanich, Highlands
← Shares border with 6
Victoria, Esquimalt, View Royal, Oak Bay, Central Saanich, Highlands
Contained subdivisions 3
University of Victoria, Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Camosun College
Country 1
Canada
Different from 1
Saanich
Instance of 1
district municipality
Located in or next to body of water 1
Haro Strait
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Capital Regional District
Located in time zone 1
Pacific Time Zone
People who died here 1
Alexander Caulfield Anderson
Topic's main category 1
Category:Saanich, British Columbia
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Saanich, British Columbia
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Capital Regional District
← Different from 1
Saanich
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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . maps.crd.bc.ca. maps.crd.bc.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . maps.crd.bc.ca. maps.crd.bc.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . maps.crd.bc.ca. maps.crd.bc.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [1] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [13] ↑ . Canada 2021 Census. wikidata.org.
  14. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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  1. 3d ago · ערן · 2026-10-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'ceb', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'fa', 'fi',
    Sitelink count → 27
    "/* wbsetlabel-add:1|he */ סאניץ'"
  2. 11w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Capital Regional District
    Official website → http://www.saanich.ca
    Inception → —
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 48.484, 'lon': -123.381}
    + 17 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/46950|batch #46950]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
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