High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! With a population over 2,000,000 Vancouver is the largest metropolis in British Columbia and the third largest in Canada. While height restrictions and view corridors have limited the height of buildings in the city`s downtown core, Vancouver has more high-rise buildings per capita than most North American metropolitan centres with populations exceeding 1,000,000. Vancouver`s population density is the 4th-highest in North America and the city has more residential high-rises per capita than any other city on the continent.