Regional District of East Kootenay

The Regional District of East Kootenay (RDEK) is a regional district in the Canadian province of British Columbia, Canada. At the 2011 census, the population was 56,685. Its area is 27,542.69 square kilometres (10,641.16 sq mi). The regional district offices are in Cranbrook, the largest community in the region. Other important population centers include the cities of Kimberley and Fernie, and the district municipality of Invermere and Sparwood. Despite its name, the regional district does not include all of the region known as the East Kootenay, which includes the Creston Valley and the east shore of Kootenay Lake.

Geography

Main article: Kootenays

The regional district's dominant landform is the Rocky Mountain Trench, which is flanked by the Purcell Mountains and Rocky Mountains on the east and west, and includes the Columbia Valley region, the southern half of which is in the regional district (its northern half is in the Columbia-Shuswap Regional District). Another distinct area within the regional district is the Elk Valley in the southern Rockies, which is the entrance to the Crowsnest Pass and an important coal-mining region. Other than the Columbia and Kootenay Rivers, whose valleys form the bottomlands of the Rocky Mountain Trench, also included in the regional district are the northernmost parts of the basins of the Flathead, Moyie and Yahk Rivers (the Moyie and Yahk are tributaries of the Kootenay, entering it in the United States, and the Flathead is a tributary of the Clark Fork in Montana).

Municipalities

Municipality	Government Type	Population
Cranbrook	city	19,319
Kimberley	city	6,652
Fernie	city	4,448
Sparwood	district municipality	3,667
Invermere	district municipality	2,955
Jumbo Glacier	mountain resort municipality	0
Elkford	district municipality	2,523
Radium Hot Springs	village	777
Canal Flats	village	715

References

Statistics Canada 2006 Community Profile: East Kootenay

External links

Regional District of East Kootenay

Subdivisions of British Columbia

Subdivisions	Regions Regional districts Forest regions and districts Ministry of Environment regions School districts Land districts Health regions Counties (court system)

Communities	Municipalities Cities District municipalities Indian government districts Island municipalities Mountain resort municipalities Regional municipalities Resort municipalities Towns Villages Ghost towns Indian reserves

Metro areas and agglomerations	Abbotsford–Mission Kelowna Vancouver Victoria Census agglomerations

Regional districts	Alberni-Clayoquot Bulkley-Nechako Capital Cariboo Central Coast Central Kootenay Central Okanagan Columbia-Shuswap Comox Valley Cowichan Valley East Kootenay Fraser Valley Fraser-Fort George Kitimat-Stikine Kootenay Boundary Greater Vancouver Mount Waddington Nanaimo North Okanagan Northern Rockies Okanagan-Similkameen Peace River Powell River Stikine Region (non-RD) Skeena-Queen Charlotte Squamish-Lillooet Strathcona Sunshine Coast Thompson-Nicola

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Coordinates: 49°40′34″N 115°16′34″W / 49.676°N 115.276°W / 49.676; -115.276

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