Vancouver (http://www.cityofvancouver.us) is a city in the Southwest Washington region of Washington State, immediately north of the border with Oregon. Two bridges across the Columbia River connect Vancouver to the rest of the Portland metropolitan area. Vancouver is the fourth largest city in Washington and is more populous than all cities in Oregon with the exception of Portland, but is obscured by its close proximity to and economic reliance on Portland, OR. It should not be confused with the larger city of the same name, Vancouver, BC Canada which is just under 300 miles 450 km to the north.
