Stikine Region

Stikine
Unincorporated area
Stikine Region
White Pass and Yukon Route
Atlin Good Hope Lake Cassiar Major communities
Location in British Columbia
Country	Canada
Province	British Columbia
Largest community	Atlin
Government [1]
• Type	Unincorporated area
• Body	None
• Administrator	Government of British Columbia
Area
• Land	118,663.53 km2 (45,816.25 sq mi)
Population  (2016)[2]
• Total	740
• Density	0.0062/km2 (0.016/sq mi)
Website	BC government page

The Stikine Region /stəˈkiːn/^{[citation needed]} is an unincorporated area in northwestern British Columbia, Canada. It is the only area in the province that is not part of a regional district. The Stikine Region was left unincorporated following legislation that established the province's regional districts in 1968 and is not classified as a regional district.^[3] It contains no municipal governments which normally constitute the majority of seats on the boards of regional districts. There is only one local planning area, the Atlin Community Planning Area, which was combined in 2009 with the Atlin Community Improvement District to provide fire, landfill, water, streetlighting, sidewalks and advisory land use services. All other services not provided privately are administered directly by various provincial government ministries. The area around Dease Lake, formerly in the Stikine Region, is now within the boundaries of the Regional District of Kitimat–Stikine following a boundary amendment in 2008.^[4]

The Stikine Region has a total population of 740 (2016)^[5] including 355 First Nations persons, most from the Taku Tlingit of Atlin and Teslin, British Columbia, and some reserves of the Kaska Dena Council. Reserves and band governments are outside the jurisdiction of the provincial government which governs the Stikine Region directly through various ministry operations, as it is not an administrative body like a regional district and has no board. The 2006 census count was 1,109 persons. Until December 2007 it had an area of 132,496 square kilometres (51,157 sq mi) or about the size of the US state of Alabama or the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. Its population density of one inhabitant per 160 square kilometres (62 sq mi) makes it the least densely populated census division in both British Columbia and Canada as a whole.