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British Columbia is one of the ten provinces of Canada. A province is an area of land that is one part of a country. Each province has its own capital.
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American explorer Robert Gray named the Columbia River after his ship in 1792. The entire area around the river was then called "Columbia." When the United States and Canada drew a boundary through Columbia in 1846, the Canadian part became known as
British Columbia. British Columbia became a Canadian Province in 1871.