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Vancouver Island is the 10th largest island in Canada and one of 6,000 islands in British Columbia. At 32,261 square kilometers (19,356 square miles) Vancouver Island is the largest island off the Pacific Coast of continental North America and boasts 3,440 kilometers (2,064 miles) of coastline. For our American visitors, it is nine times larger than Long Island, New York; and for our overseas visitors Vancouver Island is larger than many European and Asian countries. On a map it looks like a smaller version of British Columbia; Vancouver Island at its narrowest is 65 kilometers (39 miles) and 97 kilometers (58 miles) at its widest. Total population of the the Vancouver Island Region is 726,367 (700,593 for Vancouver Island, 18,926 for the Southern Gulf Islands, and 6,848 for the Northern Gulf Islands).
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