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==Regional districts==
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[[Regional district]]s were first created across British Columbia from 1966 to 1967 to form bodies for inter-municipal coordination and to extend municipal-level powers to areas outside existing municipalities. Today, the Lower Mainland includes two regional districts: the [[Metro Vancouver Regional District]] (MVRD) and the [[Fraser Valley Regional District]] (FVRD). Both regional districts, however, include areas outside the traditional limits of the Lower Mainland. Metro Vancouver includes areas like Surrey and Langley that are geographically in the [[Fraser Valley]].

The Metro Vancouver Regional District is made up of 21 municipalities. The MVRD is bordered on the west by the Strait of Georgia, to the north by the [[Squamish-Lillooet Regional District]], on the east by the Fraser Valley Regional District, and to the south by [[Whatcom County, Washington]], in the [[United States]].

The Fraser Valley Regional District lies east of the Metro Vancouver Regional District, and comprises the cities of [[Abbotsford, British Columbia|Abbotsford]] and [[Chilliwack]], the [[District municipality|district municipalities]] of [[Mission, British Columbia|Mission]], [[Agassiz, British Columbia|Kent]], and [[Hope, British Columbia|Hope]], and the village of [[Harrison Hot Springs, British Columbia|Harrison Hot Springs]]. It also includes many unincorporated areas in the Fraser Valley and along the west side of the [[Fraser Canyon]] (the Fraser Canyon is not in the Lower Mainland).

Regional district powers are very limited and other localized provincial government services are delivered through other regionalization systems.