Regional District of East Kootenay

YK

NWT

AB

WA

AK

Alberni
Clayoquot

Bulkley
Nechako

Capital

Cariboo

Central
Coast

Central
Kootenay

Central
Okanagan

Columbia
Shuswap

Comox
Valley

Cowichan

East
Kootenay

Fraser
Valley

Fraser
Fort George

Kitimat
Stikine

Kootenay
Boundary

MV

Mount
Waddington

Nanaimo

North
Okanagan

Northern
Rockies

Okanagan
Similkameen

Peace
River

Powell
River

Skeena
Queen Charlotte

Squamish
Lillooet

Stikine

Strathcona

Sunshine
Coast

Thompson
Nicola

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

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

References

External links

• Regional District of East Kootenay

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