Статистика. Просто так .... на подумать.
The third-largest metropolitan area in Canada for many years, Vancouver passed the 2 million mark for the first time in 2006. British Columbia's biggest city, it is home to more than half of the province's population.
Though the province experienced net losses in its migration exchanges with the rest of the country, especially other parts of British Columbia, Vancouver is the destination of many international immigrants. Between 2001 and 2006, an average of 25,000 immigrants a year settled in the Vancouver area. Because of international immigration, Vancouver continued to experience a higher population growth rate than the provincial average in the 2001 to 2006 period (6.5% versus 5.3%).
The Vancouver area is made up of about 40 municipalities, five of which have a population of more than 100,000. The municipality of Vancouver is the largest, with a population count of 578,041 in the 2006 Census, followed by Surrey (394,976), Burnaby (202,799), Richmond (174,461) and Coquitlam (114,565).
Municipalities located within the Vancouver CMA are growing at different rates. Between 2001 and 2006, growth was particularly rapid in municipalities in the eastern and southern parts of the Vancouver CMA, especially Maple Ridge (+9.2%), Langley (+6.1%), New Westminster (+7.1%), Port Moody (+15.5%) and Surrey (+13.6%). Their growth rates were all above the national, provincial and Vancouver CMA's averages for the 2001 to 2006 period.
The municipalities of Burnaby (+4.6%) and Coquitlam (+1.5%) grew more slowly than the provincial average (+5.3%) since 2001. Richmond's population growth rate was higher, at 6.2%.
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А в Москве да, пора уже поумнеть и начать выравнивать зарплату между центром и регионами, тогда народ сам свалит, уменьшив пробки и ещё кучу социальных вещей.