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1,761 km 2 (680 sq mi) British Columbia is the westernmost province of Canada, bordered by the Pacific Ocean. With an area of 944,735 km 2 (364,764 sq mi) it is Canada's third-largest province. The province is almost four times the size of the United Kingdom and larger than every United States state except Alaska.
The province's name was chosen by Queen Victoria, when the Colony of British Columbia (1858–1866), i.e., "the Mainland", became a British colony in 1858. [27] It refers to the Columbia District, the British name for the territory drained by the Columbia River, in southeastern British Columbia, which was the namesake of the pre-Oregon Treaty Columbia Department of the Hudson's Bay Company.
Symbol Image Adopted Remarks Provincial Government Social Media Symbol (current): Rising Sun Logo 2017 This symbol is the current logo used by the Province of British Columbia for provincial social media accounts and still has the rising sun, but instead of saying "British Columbia" under the rising sun, it has been changed to only say "BC" and also removed the yellow underline that the ...
The biogeoclimatic zones of British Columbia are units of a classification system used by the British Columbia Ministry of Forests for the Canadian province's fourteen different broad, climatic ecosystems. The classification system, termed Biogeoclimatic Ecosystem Classification, exists independently of other ecoregion systems, one created by ...
The first European visitors to present-day British Columbia were Spanish sailors and other European sailors who sailed for the Spanish crown. There is some evidence that the Greek-born Juan de Fuca, who sailed for Spain and explored the West coast of North America in the 1590s, might have reached the passageway between Washington State and Vancouver Island – today known as the Strait of Juan ...
Demographics of British Columbia. Canada British Columbia Density 2016. British Columbia is a Canadian province with a population of about 5.6 million people. The province represents about 13.2% of the population of the Canadian population. Most of the population is between the ages of 15 and 49. About 60 percent of British Columbians have ...
This category has the following 31 subcategories, out of 31 total. Geography of the Cariboo (1 C, 67 P) Geography of the Chilcotin (1 C, 10 P) Geography of Coquitlam (1 C, 2 P) Geography of Haida Gwaii (3 C, 2 P) Geography of the Okanagan (13 C, 3 P) Geography of Vancouver (7 C, 12 P) Geography of Vancouver Island (1 ...
Spem reduxit (hope was restored) Provincial soil: Holmesville, Salmon Fly: Picture Province [ 6 ] Newfoundland and Labrador [ 7 ] Atlantic puffin (provincial bird) Willow ptarmigan Rock ptarmigan (game bird) Woodland caribou (Newfoundland regimental mascot) Newfoundland pony (heritage animal) -. Purple pitcher plant.