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The extended urban area of the largest city of BC and Canada's busiest port city.
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Metro Vancouver
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Where BC Parliament sits.
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Capital
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From an indigenous word meaning "warm land."
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Cowichan Valley
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Part of the name is from BC's most important river, and the other part from the original name of what is now the largest city in northern BC.
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Fraser-Fort George
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Named after two major rivers of central BC, one meaning "son of Thomas" and the other sounding like the Serbo-Croatian version of "Nicholas."
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Thompson-Nicola
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Named solely after BC's most important river, and more specifically, the most densely populated part thereof (of which the regional district itself only comprises half the area and maybe a tenth of the population!)
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Fraser Valley
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Named after two towns that are in turn named after two indigenous entities - Sḵwx̱wu'mesh and Lil'wat.
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Squamish-Lillooet
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Named after the second-largest urban area on Vancouver Island and home to an eponymous chocolate-custard bar.
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Nanaimo
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Named for an alternate name of Glen Coe in Scotland; shares its name with a provincial park and a suburb of Edmonton, Alberta.
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Strathcona
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Named after the tallest mountain completely within British Columbia borders. May look similar to "Paddington" but doesn't rhyme with it!
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Mount Waddington
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Part of the name reminds one of US Democrat politicians Gore and Sanders. The other is named after a "sound" on the west of Vancouver Island pronounced "CLACK-watt"
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Alberni-Clayoquot
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One part of the name is the major river after which BC was named, and the other is named after a roughly-X-shaped lake in central BC.
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Columbia-Shuswap
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One of two regions named solely after BC's most famous lake. Largest city is Vernon.
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North Okanagan
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One of two regions named solely after BC's most famous lake. Basically Kelowna's metro area although that city's not in the name.
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Central Okanagan
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Named after the two main rivers, and the famous lake that shares a name with one of the rivers, in south-central British Columbia.
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Okanagan-Similkameen
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Although it's the westernmost part of the region named after a certain river starting in K, it is not called Western K_____, but something else related to it being the border of the region!
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Kootenay Boundary
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The midmost part of the region starting with K, and also the one where the K river enters the USA
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Central Kootenay
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Sits right on the Rockies and the border of Alberta. Holds the source of two major rivers, including the one BC is named after.
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East Kootenay
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If you were to name a shoreline region where the sun is out a lot, you'd probably call it
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Sunshine Coast
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The northernmost part of BC's shoreline. Should be easy.
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North Coast
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The midmost part of BC's shoreline and also the sparsest-populated besides the farthest-north.
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Central Coast
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A small RD on north-central Vancouver Island that contains three main settlements, including one bearing the name of the glacier after which the RD itself is named. The name is also quite similar to an Italian city that rhymes with the Latin word for "man."
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Comox Valley
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One of the very few third-order divisions in Canada that starts with "Q;" would be pronounced similarly to "catheter" but without the last syllable.
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qathet
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The northernmost part of a major mountain range that runs from British Columbia to New Mexico
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Northern Rockies
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If you get lost here you'd be in a "sticky" situation as the entire region has just around 740 people living in it!
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Stikine
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Named after a company town in its south that might make a good sleeping pad for a cat, and a "sticky" river whose basin is primarily in BC but whose delta is in the Alaskan Panhandle!
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Kitimat-Stikine
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The name is pronounced the same as that of the name of feral or wild reindeer.
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Cariboo
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Named for two rivers, one being a tributary of BC's primary river and the other, although almost touching the first, is not even within the same basin and has a last name that makes him sound kinda fat in English!
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Bulkley-Nechako
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Think "stream of tranquility." Shares its name with a town in Alberta.
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Peace River
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