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Topographical map of British Columbia. Geography of British Columbia. British Columbia is: a province of Canada; Location: The regions in which British Columbia is located are:
The following list comprises the physiogeographic regions of the Canadian province of British Columbia as defined by S.S. Holland in Bulletin 48 of the Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources' Landforms of British Columbia. [1] [2]
The Ministry of Tourism also has a system of tourism regions, and the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Small Business Development divides the province into development regions, with BC Stats using a different regionalization system than that of Statistics Canada, which uses regional district boundaries to organize its data.
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.
Rivers of British Columbia by region (11 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Geographic regions of British Columbia" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
The British Columbia Coast, popularly referred to as the BC Coast or simply the Coast, is a geographic region of the Canadian province of British Columbia. As the entire western continental coastline of Canada along the Pacific Ocean is in the province, it is synonymous with being the West Coast of Canada .
The provinces and territories are sometimes grouped into regions, listed here from west to east by province, followed by the three territories.Seats in the Senate are equally divided among four regions: the West, Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritimes, with special status for Newfoundland and Labrador as well as for the three territories of Northern Canada ('the North').
Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), command of the Air Force. Canadian Joint Operations Command (CJOC), responsible for all operations except special forces; Canadian Special Operations Forces Command (CANSOFCOM), responsible for special forces operations within Canada and abroad. Canadian Forces. Army: Canadian Army; Navy: Royal Canadian Navy