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Tri-City, Tricity or Tri-Cities may refer to:
The name Tri-Cities refers to two regions in the U.S. state of Michigan. Both are located in the Lower Peninsula.
The Tri-Cities are an informal grouping of three adjacent suburban cities and two villages in the north-east sector of Metro Vancouver in British Columbia. Combined, these five communities have a 2011 population of 218,509 residents:
Municipality
Type
Population
Anmore
village
2,092
Belcarra
village
644
Coquitlam
city
126,456
Port Coquitlam
city
56,342
Port Moody
city
32,975
The Tri-Cities (also known as Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo) is a metropolitan area located in the south-central portion of Ontario, Canada. It is centred on the cities of Kitchener, Cambridge, and Waterloo, as well as surrounding municipalities, collectively called the Regional Municipality of Waterloo. The census metropolitan area (CMA) had a population of 477,160 in 2011, making it the fourth largest metropolitan area in Ontario, after Toronto, Ottawa and Hamilton, and the tenth largest metropolitan area in the country. The tri-cities area is known for its high concentration of tech companies, such as Blackberry (formerly Research in Motion), OpenText, Kik, and Maplesoft. As such, it has often been referred to as "Canada's Silicon Valley". The Tri-Cities are also home to the widely know University of Waterloo, as well as Wilfred Laurier University and Conestoga College.
The area is also known for its high concentration of Mennonites. There are many Mennonite churches in the area, serving the New Mennonites, Conservative Mennonites, Old Order Mennonite and the Mennonite Brethren.