Facts About Kelowna
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Kelowna is a city on Okanagan Lake in the Okanagan Valley in the southern interior of British Columbia, Canada.
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The name Kelowna derives from an Okanagan language word for “grizzly bear”.
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The city proper encompasses 211.82 square kilometres, and the census metropolitan area 2,904.86 square kilometres.
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The estimated Kelowna population is 217,229 in the metropolitan area and 142,146 in the city proper.
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The coldest recorded temperature in the city was −36.1 °C recorded on 30 December 1968.
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Kelowna has “sister city” agreements with the following cities: Kasugai, Japan & Veendam, Netherlands.
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Kelowna was incorporated as a city in 1905.
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In 1958, construction of a floating bridge across Lake Okanagan was completed, linking Kelowna to the communities of Westbank to the west and Peachland and Summerland to the south.
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Kelowna encompasses 214 km² of land and 48 km² of water area.
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Kelowna’s official floral emblem is the Arrowleaf Balsamroot, often referred to by locals as the Okanagan Sunflower.