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The Thompson–Nicola Regional District is a regional district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The Canada 2021 Census population was 143,680 and the area covers 44,449.49 square kilometres. The administrative offices are in the main population centre of Kamloops, which accounts for 78 percent of the regional district's population. The only other city is Merritt; other municipally-incorporated communities include the District Municipalities of Logan Lake, Barriere and Clearwater and the Villages of Chase, Ashcroft, Cache Creek, Clinton and Lytton, and also the Mountain Resort Municipality of Sun Peaks.

Thompson–Nicola
Regional district
Thompson–Nicola Regional District
Kamloops Lake
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Location in British Columbia
Country	Canada
Province	British Columbia
Administrative office location	Kamloops
Government [1]
• Type	Regional district
• Body	Board of directors
• Chair	Kenneth Gillis (L)
• Vice chair	Barb Roden (Ashcroft)
• Electoral areas	A - Wells Gray Country B - Thompson Headwaters E - Bonaparte Plateau I - Blue Sky Country J - Copper Desert Country L - Grasslands M - Beautiful Nicola Valley–North N - Beautiful Nicola Valley–South O - Lower North Thompson P - Rivers and the Peaks
Area
• Land	44,449.42 km2 (17,162.02 sq mi)
Population  (2016)[2]
• Total	132,663
• Density	2.98/km2 (7.7/sq mi)
Website	www.tnrd.bc.ca

The region is named indirectly for the Thompson River by way of the traditional regional names of "the Thompson Country" and "the Nicola Country"; the Nicola Country was named for Chief Nicola and was originally "Nicola's Country", where he held sway; he is also the namesake of that river. The regional district government operates over 115 services including libraries,[3] solid waste management and recycling, emergency and development services, plus a film commission.[4]

Municipalities

Municipality	Government Type	Population (2016)
Kamloops	city	90,280[5]
Merritt	city	7,113[6]
Chase	village	2,286[7]
Clearwater	district municipality	2,324[8]
Logan Lake	district municipality	1,993[9]
Barriere	district municipality	1,713[10]
Ashcroft	village	1,558[11]
Cache Creek	village	963[12]
Clinton	village	641[13]
Sun Peaks	mountain resort municipality	616[14]
Lytton	village	249[15]

Unincorporated communities

• Arden Forest
• Ashcroft Manor
• Basque
• Bighorn
• Brookmere
• Chasm
• Jesmond
• Kelly Lake
• Loon Lake
• Lower Hat Creek (Carquile)
• Pritchard
• Spences Bridge
• Upper Hat Creek

Electoral Areas

• Electoral Area "A" (Wells Gray Country)
• Electoral Area "B" (Thompson Headwaters)
• Electoral Area "E" (Bonaparte Plateau)
• Electoral Area "I" (Blue Sky Country)
• Electoral Area "J" (Copper Desert Country)
• Electoral Area "L"
• Electoral Area "M"
• Electoral Area "N"
• Electoral Area "O"
• Electoral Area "P" (Rivers and the Peaks)

Demographics

As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Thompson-Nicola Regional District had a population of 143,680 living in 59,885 of its 65,065 total private dwellings, a change of 8.3% from its 2016 population of 132,663. With a land area of 44,347.23 km² (17,122.56 sq mi), it had a population density of 3.2/km² (8.4/sq mi) in 2021.[16]

Ethnic groups in Thompson–Nicola RD (2016) Source:		Population	%
Ethnic group	European	99,760	77.3%
	Aboriginal	18,705	14.5%
	South Asian	2,960	2.3%
	Chinese	1,410	1.1%
	Japanese	1,010	0.8%
	Filipino	880	0.7%
	Black	700	0.5%
	Latin American	345	0.3%
	Korean	290	0.2%
	Southeast Asian	265	0.2%
	Arab	190	0.1%
	West Asian	95	0.1%
	Multiple minorities	225	0.2%
	Visible minority, n.i.e.	80	0.1%
Total population		132,663	100%

Parks

The regional district contains more than 60 provincial parks. See List of provincial parks of Thompson-Nicola Regional District.

References

External links

• Official website

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