Surrey, city in southwestern British Columbia, Canada. Located southeast of Vancouver, Surrey is bounded by the Fraser River to the north and the United States to the south. Surrey is the largest city in area in the Greater Vancouver region and second only to Vancouver in population. It was one of the fastest growing cities in Canada in the 1990s.
Surrey consists of six different town centers, each of which is a self-contained residential and business community. Residential development is primarily concentrated in the north of Surrey and on a major ridge to the south. The city's central region, consisting of the Serpentine and Nicomekl river flats, is mainly agricultural. Much of the land lies within the Agricultural Land Reserve—land designated for agricultural use under British Columbia's Agricultural Land Commission Act.
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