The Northern Rockies Regional Municipality (NRRM), formerly the Northern Rockies Regional District (NRRD),
and before that the Fort Nelson–Liard Regional District, is a
municipality
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The term ''municipality ...
in northeastern
British Columbia
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,
Canada
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. Although portrayed as a
regional municipality
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in its official name, and existing on the same administrative level as a
regional district
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, it is actually classified as a
district municipality
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Canada British Columbia
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.
The NRRM's offices are located in
Fort Nelson, formerly an incorporated town that amalgamated with the NRRD on February 6, 2009 to form the NRRM.
With the
Peace River Regional District
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as the southern part, it was the northern part of the
Peace River-Liard Regional District Peace River-Liard Regional District was a regional district in northeastern British Columbia, spanning from Tumbler Ridge in the southwest to Lower Post on the northwest, in the angle of British Columbia's borders with Yukon, the Northwest Territori ...
, which was split into two on October 31, 1987.
The NRRM lies on the east slope of the
Rocky Mountains
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, and comprises approximately 10% of the total area of the province of British Columbia, encompassing .
[ Its southern boundary is the 58th ]parallel of latitude
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