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West Vancouver

district municipality of British Columbia, Canada
Organization district_municipality Q991329
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West Vancouver

Summary

West Vancouver is a district municipality[1]. It ranks in the top 9% of district_municipality entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (234 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • West Vancouver is located in Metro Vancouver Regional District[3].
  • West Vancouver is in the country of Canada[4].
  • West Vancouver is on the body of water Strait of Georgia[5].
  • West Vancouver is on the body of water Howe Sound[6].
  • West Vancouver is on the body of water Capilano River[7].
  • West Vancouver is on the body of water Capilano Lake[8].
  • West Vancouver's image is recorded as West Vancouver Library.jpg[9].
  • West Vancouver's instance of is recorded as district municipality[10].
  • West Vancouver's shares border with is recorded as Vancouver[11].
  • West Vancouver's shares border with is recorded as North Vancouver[12].
  • West Vancouver's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 126102452[13].
  • West Vancouver's GND ID is recorded as 4803019-3[14].
  • West Vancouver's locator map image is recorded as GVRD West Vancouver.svg[15].
  • West Vancouver's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n88258275[16].
  • West Vancouver's postal code is recorded as V7V[17].
  • West Vancouver's Commons category is recorded as West Vancouver[18].
  • West Vancouver's OpenStreetMap relation ID is recorded as 1524231[19].
  • +1912-03-15T00:00:00Z marks the founding of West Vancouver[20].
  • West Vancouver's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 49.3667, 'lon': -123.167}[21].
  • West Vancouver's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01wmrs[22].
  • West Vancouver's CGNDB unique ID is recorded as JBJYE[23].
  • West Vancouver's official website is recorded as https://westvancouver.ca/[24].
  • West Vancouver's topic's main category is recorded as Category:West Vancouver[25].
  • West Vancouver's page banner is recorded as West Vancouver banner ambleside beach2.jpg[26].
  • West Vancouver's MusicBrainz area ID is recorded as 7d0d3ca5-56ea-49e9-b050-61217caad16f[27].

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Founding

+1912-03-15T00:00:00Z marks the founding of West Vancouver[20].

Why It Matters

West Vancouver ranks in the top 9% of district_municipality entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (234 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

Related Entities

Canada

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . Q14005. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. 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. 26d ago · Shuaib-bot bot · 2026-05-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Population → {'amount': '+42473'}
    Category of associated people → Category:People from West Vancouver
    Located in or next to body of water → Strait of Georgia, Howe Sound, Capilano River +1
    Category for people who died here → Category:Deaths in West Vancouver
    + 19 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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