Lillooet

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Lillooet, a town in the Fraser Canyon in British Columbia.
St'at'imc Nation, aka the Lillooet Nation
The St'at'imcets language, or Lillooet Language
The Lillooet Tribal Council, which is the usual English name for the governing body of the St'at'imc Nation and its component First Nations

Lillooet is found on many geographic features: .

The Lillooet River, a tributary of the Fraser River; and also Lillooet Lake, which is on the Lillooet River
The Lillooet Ranges, a subdivision of the Coast Mountains
The Lillooet Ice Cap is one of the temperate-zone icecaps of the Coast Mountains, about 200k north of Vancouver
Lillooet Mountain is one of the peaks of the Lillooet Ice Cap

It is also common in administrative names:

Squamish-Lillooet Regional District is a British Columbia regional district
the Lillooet Land District is a legal land-survey region of British Columbia dating to the founding of the colony in 1858 used in all property and legal documents
Yale-Lillooet is a provincial electoral district or "riding" in British Columbia which superseded:
- Lillooet was a historical provincial electoral district 1871- 1890 and 1903-1966. It was among the province's original twelve ridings
- Lillooet West was a historical provincial electoral district in the 1894, 1898 and 1890 British Columbia elections
- Lillooet East was a historical provincial electoral district in the 1894, 1898 and 1890 British Columbia elections
- and parts of the original Yale riding.
- NB the original federal district including the town and area of Lillooet was Cariboo (electoral district).