The Regional District of Kitimat–Stikine is a local government administration in northwestern

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, Canada. As of the

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, it had a population of 37,790 living on a land area of . Its administrative offices are in the city of

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. The next-largest municipality in the regional district is the

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Kitimat Kitimat is a district municipality in the North Coast region of British Columbia, Canada. It is a member municipality of the Regional District of Kitimat–Stikine regional government. The Kitimat Valley is part of the most populous urban dist ...

. The other incorporated municipalities in the regional district are the Village of Hazelton, the District of New Hazelton and the District of Stewart. There are many unincorporated communities, most of them

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s which are not part of the governmental system of the regional district, which has limited powers relating mostly to municipal-type services. The remote settlement of Dease Lake, formerly in the Stikine Region, was added to the regional district on December 1, 2007. Thornhill (Kitimat-Stikine E (Regional district electoral area) ensus subdivision is the largest unincorporated community in the regional district with a population of 3,932 residents.

Municipalities

Demographics

As a

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in the

conducted by

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, the Regional District of Kitimat–Stikine had a population of 37,790 living in 15,306 of its 17,386 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 37,367. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.

Climate

Climate normals are from Northwest Regional Airport Terrace-Kitimat, located south of Terrace (about south of downtown).

Notes

References

Community Profile: Kitimat-Stikine Regional District, British Columbia; Statistics Canada

External links

* Kitimat-Stikine Long stubs with short prose {{BritishColumbiaCoast-geo-stub