Amazing Facts About Richmond British Columbia Canada

Richmond is a city which located in Canadian province, British Columbia. Part of Metro Vancouver area, Richmond is having around 218,307 population as of year 2017. Amazing Facts About Richmond British Columbia Canada make Richmond a very famous tourist destination in Canada.

Richmond has around 60% of immigrant population, it is the highest record in Canada. Richmond is location of Vancouver International Airport and was site of long track for speed skating events during 2010 Winter Olympics.

Richmond is located on a Lulu Island at mouth of Fraser River, and this too encompasses the adjacent Sea Island and some of the smaller uninhabited islets to south and north.

The neighbouring communities are Burnaby and Vancouver to north, Delta to the south and New Westminster to the east. Strait of Georgia forms a western border.

Amazing Facts About Richmond British Columbia Canada

1. Richmond is not part of any other country so therefore it is considered as an independent city. Richmond city is located between Chesterfield County and Henrico County.

2. In year 2012, population of Richmond was around 208,834.

3. Richmond served as capital of Confederate States of America during Civil War. The very famous words are “Give me Liberty or give me Death” which were uttered by Patrick Henry in year 1775 in an amazing speech that he made in Richmond city.

4. Richmond is best home to world’s first electric streetcar system that work successfully. This Richmond city was a home to first testing of electric trolley in United States.

5.Richmond is a home to United States Court of Appeals for Fourth Circuit. This court has jurisdiction over majority of North Carolina and District of Maryland.

It has jurisdiction over Western Districts, the Eastern and South Carolina of Virginia as well as Southern and Northern Districts of Virginia.

6. Climate in Richmond is considered as subtropical and humid with precipitation which is distributed uniformly throughout the whole year. The winters are mild and summers are humid and hot.

7. Richmond has 9 FM stations and 8 AM radio stations.

8. Presidents Tyler and Monroe are buried in this Richmond city. It is one of the Amazing Facts About Richmond British Columbia Canada.

9. Richmond city has population of 197,790 residents.

10. Tropical and Hurricanes storms are hitting coastline of city which are known to produce record breaking floods.

Know everything about Richmond at: http://www.richmondgov.com/