The Alberni–Clayoquot Regional District of

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is located on west central

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. Adjacent regional districts it shares borders with are the Strathcona and Comox Valley Regional Districts to the north, and the

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and

Cowichan Valley The Cowichan Valley is a region around the Cowichan River, Cowichan Bay and Cowichan Lake on Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada. There is some debate as to the origin of the name Cowichan, which many believe to be an anglicized fo ...

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s to the east. The regional district offices are located in

Port Alberni Port Alberni () is a city located on Vancouver Island in the province of British Columbia, Canada. The city lies within the Alberni Valley at the head of the Alberni Inlet, Vancouver Island's longest inlet. It is the location of the head offices ...

Communities

Cities

- Pop 17,678

Regional District Electoral Areas

* Area A (Bamfield) **

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- Pop 179 ** Kildonan ** Sarita * Area B (Beaufort) * Area C (Long Beach) **

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* Area D (Sproat Lake) ** Great Central ** Kleecoot **

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* Area E (Beaver Creek) * Area F (Cherry Creek)

District Municipalities

Tofino Tofino ( ) is a town of approximately 2,516 residents on the west coast of Vancouver Island in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The District of Tofino is located at the western terminus of Highway 4 on the tip of the Esowista Peninsu ...

- Pop 1,932 *

Ucluelet Ucluelet (, also Ukee) is a district municipality (population 1,717) on the Ucluelet Peninsula on the west coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. Ucluelet means "people of the safe harbour" in the indigenous Nuu-chah-nulth (No ...

- Pop 1,717

Indian Reserves

NB Indian Reserves are not part of municipal or regional district governance and are outside the regional district's jurisdiction, and also counted separately in the census figures. Population figures here are from the 2006 census: * Ahahswinis IR No. 1 pop. 148 * Alberni IR No. 2 pop. 5 * Anacla IR No. 12 pop. 95 * Clakamucus IR No. 2 pop. 5 * Elhlateese IR No. 2 pop. 27 * Esowista IR No. 3 pop. 160 * Hesquiat IR No. 1 pop. 10 * Ittatsoo IR No. 1 pop. 200 * Keeshan IR No. 9 Pop. 0 * Klehkoot IR No. 2 pop. 10 * Macoah IR No. 1 pop. 19 * Marktosis IR No. 15 pop. 661 * Numukamis IR No. 1 pop. 5 * Openit IR No. 27 pop. 0 * Opitsat IR No. 1 pop. 174 * Refuge Cove IR No. 6 pop. 103 * Sachsa IR No. 4 pop. 0 * Stuart Bay IR No. 6 pop. 0 * Tsahaheh IR No. 1 pop. 425 Community Profiles, Tsahaheh 1 (Indian Reserve)
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Highways

Highways that run through the Alberni–Clayoquot Regional District: * Highway 4

Demographics

As a

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in the

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conducted by

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, the Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.

References

Community Profile: Alberni–Clayoquot Regional District, British Columbia; Statistics Canada

External links

* {{coord, 49, 15, 00, N, 125, 20, 00, W, display=title Alberni-Clayoquot West Coast of Vancouver Island