Kelowna
Kelowna is a city on Okanagan Lake in the Okanagan Valley in the southern interior of British Columbia, Canada. It serves as the head office of the Regional District of the Central Okanagan. The name Kelowna derives from an Okanagan language word for "grizzly bear".Kelowna is the province's third-largest metropolitan area, its seventh-largest city overall, and the largest in the Interior. It is the 22nd-largest metropolitan area in Canada. The city... Show more proper encompasses 211.82 square kilometres, and the census metropolitan area 2,904.86 square kilometres. In 2019, it was estimated that Kelowna's population had grown to 217,229 in the metropolitan area and 142,146 in the city proper. After many years of suburban expansion into the surrounding mountain slopes, the city council adopted a long-term plan intended to increase density instead - particularly in the downtown core. This has resulted in...