Surrey, British Columbia

Surrey is a city in British Columbia, Canada, lying south of the Fraser River on the border with the United States and belonging to the Metro Vancouver regional district and metropolitan area. It is mainly a suburban city and, by population, the second largest in the province after Vancouver, while by area it ranks third after Abbotsford and Prince George. The city is organized around seven town centres: Cloverdale, Fleetwood, Guildford, Newton, South Surrey and City Centre, which sits within Whalley. Surrey was incorporated in 1879 on land of the Katzie, Kwantlen and Semiahmoo peoples, and the settlement took its name from an English settler who thought the view across the Fraser River from New Westminster resembled the County of Surrey in England. The 2021 census counted 568,322 residents, a rise of 9.7 percent over 2016.