West End, Vancouver

West End
Neighbourhood
View of the West End and English Bay at sunset
Location of the West End shown in red
Coordinates: 49°17′06″N 123°08′02″W / 49.285°N 123.134°W / 49.285; -123.134
Country	Canada
Province	British Columbia
City	Vancouver
Area [1]
• Land	1.98 km2 (0.76 sq mi)
Population  (2016)[1]
• Total	47,200
• Density	23,838.4/km2 (61,741/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC−08:00 (PST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−07:00 (PDT)
Forward sortation area	V6E
Area codes	604, 778, 236, 672
Website	vancouver.ca/community_profiles/west_end/index.htm

The West End is a neighbourhood in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, located between the Coal Harbour neighbourhood and the financial and central business districts of Downtown Vancouver to the east, Stanley Park to the northwest, the English Bay to the west, and Kitsilano to the southwest across the False Creek opening.

The West End is not to be confused with the West Side (which denotes the western half of the non-downtown part of Vancouver city to the south) or West Vancouver ("West Van"), a separate municipality (conversely, and to the confusion of some, "East Van", "the East End", and "the East Side" all denote East Vancouver).

The definition of the "official neighbourhood" of the West End, according to the city, is the area west of Burrard Street, east of Lost Lagoon, and south of West Georgia Street.^[2] Historically the term originated and remains used by Vancouverites to refer to everything from Burrard Street to Stanley Park, including the Stanley Park Neighbourhood west of Denman Street and the Coal Harbour Neighbourhood. Coal Harbour Neighbourhood is officially designated as west of Burrard and to the north of West Georgia, although the newly built areas between West Pender Street and the waterfront are expressly "Coal Harbour" and not considered part of the West End.