The District of Metchosin () is a municipality and community in Greater Victoria on the southern tip of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. It is a coastal community adjacent to the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Metchosin is part of the Western Communities and one of the 13 regional municipalities.
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=== Religion === According to the 2021 census, religious groups in Metchosin included: Irreligion (3,120 persons or 66.2%) Christianity (1,480 persons or 31.4%) Buddhism (20 persons or 0.4%) Other (80 persons or 1.7%)
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).