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North Vancouver The city of North Vancouver (centre), with the mountains of North Vancouver district municipality rising in the background behind it, southwestern British Columbia, Canada.

North Vancouver

British Columbia, Canada
Also known as: Moodyville
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Kenneth Pletcher
Ken Pletcher was Senior Editor, Geography and History for Encyclopædia Britannica. He holds an M.A. in Japanese studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As part of his master's program,...
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North Vancouver, city and district municipality, southwestern British Columbia, Canada. The city lies along the north shore of Burrard Inlet of the Strait of Georgia opposite the city of Vancouver. On the landward side it is surrounded by the much larger (and administratively separate) district municipality of North Vancouver, which extends eastward along the inlet to Indian Arm (the inlet’s northward branch) and borders the district municipality of West Vancouver to the west. The city...

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