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Sidney

town in British Columbia, Canada
Place town Q390530

Facts

12 properties
Instance of
town, municipality[5]
Country
Canada[3]
Official website
www.sidney.ca[9]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 48.651°, -123.399°
Area
+5.10[12]
Elevation above sea level
+5[11]
Local dialing code
250[8]
Located in or next to body of water
Haro Strait[4]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Capital Regional District[2]
Population
+11672[10]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 11,672 GeoNames 12,318 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
Shares border with
North Saanich[6]
Twinned administrative body
Niimi[7]
🏷️ Also known as
en Sidney en Sidney, BC en Sidney, British Columbia ar سيدني، كولومبيا البريطانية es Sidney (Columbia Británica) fa سیدنی، بریتیش کلمبیا ja シドニー市 pl Sidney (Kolumbia Brytyjska) ru Сидней uk Сідні zh 悉尼 zh 悉尼 (卑詩省)
🔖 Identifiers · 19
VIAF cluster ID
150017115
Library of Congress authority ID
n79141832
GND ID
501238-7
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
1936 Post Office Building, Sidney, BC.jpg ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
17752
BC Geographical Names ID
27029
CGNDB unique ID
JBWFW
Canadian Encyclopedia article ID
sidney
Freebase ID
/m/03bhx5
GeoNames ID
6147439
MusicBrainz area ID
d142ba78-f2f4-479b-8011-fe00224598f9
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007555077105171
Show all 19 identifiers +7
OpenStreetMap relation ID
2221060
OpenWeatherMap city ID
6147439
Statistics Canada Geographic code
5917010
UN/LOCODE
CASDY
Who's on First ID
101740881
World Historical Gazetteer place ID
12967314
Yale LUX ID
place/bf19a29f-9d97-4eb5-a7c2-ed7766764353

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Located in time zoneP421
America/Vancouver 2026-09-26 P/PPL · CA GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
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🔗 Connections
Instance of 2
municipality, town
People who died here 2
John Macoun, Margaret Elizabeth Barr-Bigelow
← Twinned administrative body 2
Anacortes, Niimi
Country 1
Canada
Located in or next to body of water 1
Haro Strait
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Capital Regional District
People born here 1
Patrick deWitt
Shares border with 1
North Saanich
Twinned administrative body 1
Niimi
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Capital Regional District
← Headquarters location 1
Viking Air
← Shares border with 1
North Saanich
← Significant place 1
Gulf Islands National Park Reserve
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Summary

Sidney is a town[1].

Related Entities

Canada

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . canadainternational.gc.ca. canadainternational.gc.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . Canada 2016 Census. wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 26w ago · KaleemBot bot · 2026-05-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → town, municipality
    Official website → https://www.sidney.ca/
    Country → —
    Population → {'amount': '+11672'}
    + 14 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ Added [[wikipedia:ur:سڈنی، برٹش کولمبیا]]"
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