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Trail

City in British Columbia, Canada

Also known as Trail, British Columbia · Trail, BC

Country: Canada
Located in: Regional District of Kootenay Boundary
Population: 7,709(2016)
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Sources
1.www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/prof/index.cfm?Lang=E
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Area: 34.93 km²
Elevation: 440 m
Website: trail.ca

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Trail is a city in the western Kootenays region of the Interior of British Columbia, Canada. It was named after the Dewdney Trail, which passed through the area. The town was first called Trail Creek or Trail Creek Landing, and the name was shortened to Trail in 1897.

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29 statements · 21% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Shares border with: Castlegar
Twinned administrative body: Sagamihara(since 1991)
Part of: West Kootenays
Different from: Trail
Located in or next to body of water: Columbia River

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15 identifiers linking Trail across the web's reference databases

49.0950, -117.7100OpenStreetMap ↗

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AIDb. (2026). Trail (Q1808502). Retrieved from https://aidb.si/e/trail-Q1808502