Flag | |
Coat of Arms | |
Motto | Splendor sine Occasu (Latin) "Splendour without Diminishment" |
Anthem | "British Columbia Marching Song" |
Royal Anthem | "God Save the Queen" |
Capital (Legislative) |
Victoria |
Capital (Judicial) |
New Westminster |
Largest City | Vancouver |
Official Languages | English Chinook Wawa |
Government | Parliamentary Constitutional Monarchy |
Monarch | Elizabeth II |
Governor General | Xweliqweltel Point |
Prime Minister | Victoria Spintlum |
Legislature | Parliament |
Upper House | Council of Chiefs |
Lower House | House of Commons |
Independence | from the United Kingdom |
Constitution Act | 18 August 1875 |
Statute of Westminster | 11 December 1931 |
British Columbia Act | 27 March 1989 |
Currency | British Columbian Pound (£) (BCP) |
British Columbia, officially the Dominion of British Columbia (Kinchoch Kolompi Illahee in Chinook Wawa), is a country on the northern west coast of North America. It is one of the seventeen British Commonwealth Realms.