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Abbotsford

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Also known as Abbotsford, British Columbia, Abbotsford, BC

city located in the Fraser Valley region of British Columbia, Canada

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Abbotsford is a city in the Fraser Valley region of British Columbia, Canada. It serves as a significant population and economic center in the province's lower mainland area.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human settlement
Country
Canada
Population
153524
Area
375550000
Elevation
38
Shares border with
Mission
Official website
www.abbotsford.ca
Image
Downtownabbotsford.JPG
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Commons category
Abbotsford, British Columbia
category for people born here
Q26715383
postal code
V2T 1V3
twinned administrative body
Fukagawa
inception
1892-00-00
different from
Abbotsford House
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Encyclopedic overview

Abbotsford (/æbətsfərd/, A-buts-furd) is a city in British Columbia next to the Canada–United States border, Greater Vancouver, and the Fraser River. With a census population of 153,569 people (2021), it is the most populous municipality in the province outside metropolitan Vancouver. Abbotsford–Mission has the third-highest proportion of visible minorities among census metropolitan areas in Canada, after the Greater Toronto Area and the Greater Vancouver CMA. It is home to Tradex, the University of the Fraser Valley, and Abbotsford International Airport.

As of the 2021 census, it is the largest municipality of the Fraser Valley Regional District and the fifth-largest municipality of British Columbia. The Abbotsford–Mission metropolitan area of around 195,726 inhabitants as of the 2021 census is the 23rd-largest census metropolitan area in Canada. It has also been named by Statistics Canada as Canada's most generous city in terms of charitable donations for nine consecutive years.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Abbotsford” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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