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24px;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_regions_of_the_Northwest_Territories" title="List of regions of the Northwest Territories">NWT</a></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: 350px; top: 200px;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_municipal_districts_in_Alberta" title="List of municipal districts in Alberta">AB</a></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: 300px; top: 405px;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Washington" title="List of counties in Washington">WA</a></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: 400px; top: 398px;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Idaho" title="List of counties in Idaho">ID</a></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: 430px; top: 395px;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Montana" title="List of counties in Montana">MT</a></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: 177px; top: 384px;"><a href="/wiki/Alberni-Clayoquot_Regional_District" title="Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District">Alberni<br />Clayoquot</a></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: 188px; top: 213px;"><a href="/wiki/Regional_District_of_Bulkley-Nechako" title="Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako">Bulkley<br />Nechako</a></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: 227px; top: 412px;"><a href="/wiki/Capital_Regional_District" title="Capital Regional District">Capital</a></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: 238px; top: 283px;"><a href="/wiki/Cariboo_Regional_District" title="Cariboo Regional District">Cariboo</a></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: 167px; top: 288px;"><a href="/wiki/Central_Coast_Regional_District" title="Central Coast Regional District">Central<br />Coast</a></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: 355px; top: 356px;"><a href="/wiki/Regional_District_of_Central_Kootenay" title="Regional District of Central Kootenay">Central<br />Kootenay</a></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: 322px; top: 356px;"><a href="/wiki/Regional_District_of_Central_Okanagan" title="Regional District of Central Okanagan">C Ok.</a></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: 343px; top: 300px;"><a href="/wiki/Columbia-Shuswap_Regional_District" title="Columbia-Shuswap Regional District">Columbia<br />Shuswap</a></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: 207px; top: 371px;"><a href="/wiki/Comox_Valley_Regional_District" title="Comox Valley Regional District">CV</a></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: 222px; top: 399px;"><a href="/wiki/Cowichan_Valley_Regional_District" title="Cowichan Valley Regional District">Cowichan</a></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: 392px; top: 339px;"><a href="/wiki/Regional_District_of_East_Kootenay" title="Regional District of East Kootenay">East<br />Kootenay</a></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: 270px; top: 369px;"><a href="/wiki/Fraser_Valley_Regional_District" title="Fraser Valley Regional District">Fraser<br />Valley</a></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: 257px; top: 225px;"><a href="/wiki/Regional_District_of_Fraser-Fort_George" class="mw-redirect" title="Regional District of Fraser-Fort George">Fraser<br />Fort George</a></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: 135px; top: 178px;"><a href="/wiki/Regional_District_of_Kitimat%E2%80%93Stikine" title="Regional District of Kitimat–Stikine">Kitimat<br />Stikine</a></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: 340px; top: 377px;"><a href="/wiki/Regional_District_of_Kootenay_Boundary" title="Regional District of Kootenay Boundary">Kootenay<br />Boundary</a></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: 255px; top: 383px;"><a href="/wiki/Metro_Vancouver" class="mw-redirect" title="Metro Vancouver">MV</a></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: 152px; top: 325px;"><a href="/wiki/Regional_District_of_Mount_Waddington" title="Regional District of Mount Waddington">Mount<br />Waddington</a></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: 222px; top: 385px;"><a href="/wiki/Regional_District_of_Nanaimo" title="Regional District of Nanaimo">Nan.</a></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: 334px; top: 336px;"><a href="/wiki/Regional_District_of_North_Okanagan" title="Regional District of North Okanagan">North<br />Ok.</a></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: 240px; top: 62px;"><a href="/wiki/Northern_Rockies_Regional_Municipality" title="Northern Rockies Regional Municipality">Northern<br />Rockies</a></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: 310px; top: 372px;"><a href="/wiki/Regional_District_of_Okanagan-Similkameen" title="Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen">Ok-<br />Simil.</a></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: 250px; top: 135px;"><a href="/wiki/Peace_River_Regional_District" title="Peace River Regional District">Peace<br />River</a></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: 224px; top: 352px;"><a href="/wiki/Qathet_Regional_District" title="Qathet Regional District">qa.</a></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: 76px; top: 230px;"><a href="/wiki/North_Coast_Regional_District" title="North Coast Regional District">North Coast</a></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: 243px; top: 333px;"><a href="/wiki/Squamish-Lillooet_Regional_District" title="Squamish-Lillooet Regional District">Squamish<br />Lillooet</a></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: 115px; top: 58px;"><a href="/wiki/Stikine_Region" title="Stikine Region">Stikine</a></div> <div style="position: absolute; transform: rotate(-45deg); left: 190px; top: 341px;"><a href="/wiki/Strathcona_Regional_District" title="Strathcona Regional District">Strathcona</a></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: 237px; top: 365px;"><a href="/wiki/Sunshine_Coast_Regional_District" title="Sunshine Coast Regional District">SC</a></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: 282px; top: 320px;"><a href="/wiki/Thompson-Nicola_Regional_District" title="Thompson-Nicola Regional District">Thompson<br />Nicola</a></div> </div> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:BC_Census_Divisions.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="British Columbia Regional 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class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Populations</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">674 (<a href="/wiki/Stikine_Region" title="Stikine Region">Stikine Region</a>) – 2,558,029 (<a href="/wiki/Metro_Vancouver" class="mw-redirect" title="Metro Vancouver">Metro Vancouver</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Areas</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">1,701 km<sup>2</sup> (657 sq mi) (<a href="/wiki/Comox_Valley_Regional_District" title="Comox Valley Regional District">Comox Valley</a>) – 118,663 km<sup>2</sup> (45,816 sq mi) (<a href="/wiki/Stikine_Region" title="Stikine Region">Stikine Region</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Government</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist 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Columbia">District municipalities</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_municipalities_in_British_Columbia#Indian_government_districts" title="List of municipalities in British Columbia">Indian government districts</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_municipalities_in_British_Columbia#Island_municipalities" title="List of municipalities in British Columbia">Island municipalities</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_municipalities_in_British_Columbia#Mountain_resort_municipalities" title="List of municipalities in British Columbia">Mountain resort municipalities</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_municipalities_in_British_Columbia#Resort_municipalities" title="List of municipalities in British Columbia">Resort municipalities</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_towns_in_British_Columbia" title="List of towns in British Columbia">Towns</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_villages_in_British_Columbia" title="List of villages in British Columbia">Villages</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_Indian_reserves_in_British_Columbia" title="List of Indian reserves in British Columbia">Indian reserves</a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>In the province of <a href="/wiki/British_Columbia" title="British Columbia">British Columbia</a> in Canada, a <b>regional district</b> is an <a href="/wiki/Administrative_division" title="Administrative division">administrative subdivision</a> of the province that consists of a geographic region with specific <a href="/wiki/Border" title="Border">boundaries</a> and governmental authority. As of January 2020,<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Regional_district&action=edit">[update]</a></sup> there were <a href="/wiki/List_of_regional_districts_of_British_Columbia" title="List of regional districts of British Columbia">28 regional districts in the province</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Regional districts should not be confused with <a href="/wiki/Counties_of_British_Columbia" title="Counties of British Columbia">counties of British Columbia</a>, which function as court house boundaries solely for the administration of justice. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Regional_district&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Regional districts came into being as an order of government in 1965 with the enactment of amendments to the Municipal Act.<sup id="cite_ref-BC_RegDist_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BC_RegDist-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Until the creation of regional districts, the only local form of government in British Columbia was incorporated municipalities, and services in areas outside municipal boundaries had to be sought from the province or through improvement districts.<sup id="cite_ref-Bish_Clemens_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bish_Clemens-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Government_structure">Government structure</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Regional_district&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Government structure"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Similar to counties in other parts of Canada, regional districts serve only to provide municipal services as the <a href="/wiki/Local_government" title="Local government">local government</a> in <a href="/wiki/Unincorporated_area" title="Unincorporated area">areas not incorporated</a> into a <a href="/wiki/Municipality" title="Municipality">municipality</a>, and in certain regional affairs of shared concern between residents of unincorporated areas and those in the municipalities such as a stakeholder role in <a href="/wiki/Regional_planning" title="Regional planning">regional planning</a>. In those predominantly rural areas, regional districts provide services such as <a href="/wiki/Land_use_planning" class="mw-redirect" title="Land use planning">land use planning</a>, <a href="/wiki/Building_inspection" title="Building inspection">building inspection</a>, solid-<a href="/wiki/Waste_management" title="Waste management">waste management</a>, and some responsibility for community <a href="/wiki/Fire_protection" title="Fire protection">fire protection</a>. </p><p>Most land nominally within a regional district is under the control of the provincial government, or in the case of national parks and offshore waters, the federal government. <a href="/wiki/Indian_reserves" class="mw-redirect" title="Indian reserves">Indian reserves</a> located within the boundaries of regional districts are likewise excluded from their jurisdiction and infrastructure, and there are varying levels of collaboration between <a href="/wiki/First_Nations_government_(Canada)" class="mw-redirect" title="First Nations government (Canada)">First Nations governments</a> and regional district boards. </p><p>Regional districts are governed by boards of directly and indirectly elected directors. Municipalities appoint directors to represent their populations (usually the mayors), while residents of unincorporated areas (which are grouped into <a href="/wiki/List_of_regional_district_electoral_areas_in_British_Columbia" title="List of regional district electoral areas in British Columbia">electoral areas</a>) elect directors directly. The votes of directors from municipalities generally count more than the votes of directors from electoral areas, and larger municipalities have more votes than smaller ones. For example, both <a href="/wiki/North_Saanich,_British_Columbia" class="mw-redirect" title="North Saanich, British Columbia">North Saanich</a> and <a href="/wiki/Metchosin,_British_Columbia" class="mw-redirect" title="Metchosin, British Columbia">Metchosin</a> appoint one director to the <a href="/wiki/Capital_Regional_District" title="Capital Regional District">Capital Regional District</a> board of directors, but the vote of North Saanich's director counts three times as much as the vote of Metchosin's appointee.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Regional_district&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> 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