Kelowna

Kelowna (/kəˈloʊnə/ (About this sound listen)) is a city on Okanagan Lake in the Okanagan Valley, in the southern interior of British Columbia, Canada. It serves as the head office of the Regional District of Central Okanagan. The name Kelowna derives from an Okanagan language term for "grizzly bear"[4]. Kelowna is the third largest metropolitan area in the province[5] and ranks as the 22nd largest in Canada. Kelowna's city proper contains 211.82[2] square kilometres (81.78 sq mi), and the census metropolitan area contains 2,904.86[2] square kilometres (1,121.57 sq mi). In 2016, the population of Kelowna consisted of 127,380 individuals occupying 53,903 private dwellings[2]. Nearby communities include the City of West Kelowna (also referred to as Westbank, Westside) to the west across Okanagan Lake, Lake Country and Vernon to the north, as well as Peachland to the southwest and, further to the south, Summerland and Penticton.