British Columbia Facts

On the west coast of Canada, British Columbia is the third largest Canadian province. British Columbia has three main mountain ranges and is two-thirds covered in forest.

• on the west coast of Canada, with the Pacific Ocean on the west and the province of Alberta on the east, British Columbia is bounded by the state of Alaska, the Northwest Territories and the Yukon on the north and the states of Montana, Idaho and Washington on the south.

• see map of British Columbia

944,735 sq. km (364,764 sq. miles) (Natural Resources Canada, 2001)

4,113,487 (Statistics Canada, 2006 Census)

Victoria, British Columbia

July 20, 1871

BC Liberal Party

May 17, 2005

Premier Gordon Campbell

Forestry, mining, fisheries, agriculture, energy, and transportation