Place · City, Diaspora
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Abbotsford is a city in British Columbia, Canada, in the Fraser Valley east of Vancouver, just north of the Canada–United States border, 153,524 people at the 2021 census, making it the largest municipality in British Columbia outside metropolitan Vancouver. Known as the “City in the Country”, it is a major Punjabi diaspora hub: 30.2% of residents are of South Asian origin, 25.5% are Sikh, and Punjabi is the mother tongue of 22.6%. The city is home to the Gur Sikh Temple, built in 1908 and opened in 1911, the oldest surviving gurdwara in North America and a National Historic Site of Canada.
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