A thread on VV's big brother site SkyscraperPage posed the question of population within a 150 kilometer radius of cities in Canada, which got me thinking and crunching numbers in regards to Victoria.
To the best of my ability I came up with the following figures centered from Yates and Douglas streets in downtown Victoria.
British Columbia Mainland
Vancouver Metro: 2,313,328
Fraser Valley Regional District****: 268,561
Gambier Island: 200
Gibsons: 4,182
Squamish: 17,158
TOTAL: 2,599,247
Vancouver Island & Islands
Victoria Metro/CRD: 359,991
Regional District of Nanaimo: 146,567
Cowichan Valley Regional District: 76,929
Port Alberni: 17,743
Bamfield: 155
TOTAL: 601,385
Washington State
Seattle Metro: 3,552,157 minus* 259,012 = 3,293,145
Clallam County: 71,863
Grays Harbor County: 71,692 minus** 51,837 = 19,855
Jefferson County: 29,854
Kitsap County: 254,991
Mason County: 60,832
Skagit County: 118,222
Snohomish County***: 50,880
Whatcom County: 205,262
TOTAL: 4,104,904
Population within 150 kilometers of downtown Victoria:
7,305,536
*Seattle metropolitan cities not within 150 kilometers or split 50%:
Auburn - 70,180
Lakewood - 58,163
Maple Valley - 22,684
Covington - 50% of 17,575 = 8,787
Tacoma - 50% of 198,397 = 99,198
TOTAL: 259,012
**Grays Harbour County communities not within 150 kilometers
Aberdeen - 16,896
Aberdeen Gardens - 279
Brady - 676
Central Park - 2,685
Chehalis Village - 346
Cohasset Beach - 722
Cosmopolis - 1,649
Elma - 3,107
Grayland - 953
Hoquiam - 8,726
Junction City - 18
Malone-Porter - 682
Markham - 111
McCleary - 1,653
Montesano - 3,976
Oakville - 684
Ocean Shores - 5,569
Ocean City - 217
Oyehut-Hogan's Corner - 170
Satsop - 619
Westport - 2,099
TOTAL: 51,837
***Snohomish county communities not included as part of Seattle Metropolitan Area
Arlington - 17,926
Darrington - 1,347
Granite Falls - 3,421
Monroe - 17,304
Stanwood - 6,231
Sultan - 4,651
TOTAL: 50,880
****Fraser Valley Regional District communities and electoral areas not included:
Hope, Harrison Hot Springs and EA A & B