BC

BC or B.C. may refer to:

• Before Christ, an epoch used in dating years prior to the estimated birth of Jesus

Geography

• Baja California, a state in Mexico
• Basque Country (greater region), a nation between Spain and France
• Bell Centre, an arena in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• Botswana's WMO country code and FIPS 10-4 code
• British Columbia, a province in Canada

Schools

• Bakersfield College, a college in Bakersfield, California
• Baghdad College, a high school, Baghdad, Iraq
• Bergen Catholic High School, a high school in Oradell, New Jersey
• Benedictine Military School, a high school in Savannah, Georgia
• Boston College, a university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
• Brazosport College, a college in Lake Jackson, Texas
• Boulder Creek High School, a high school in Anthem, Arizona

Businesses and organizations

• Bella Center, a conference center in Copenhagen, Denmark
• Brasseries du Cameroun, a brewery in Cameroon
• British Council
• Brunswick Corporation's NYSE ticker symbol

Science and technology

• bc programming language, an arbitrary-precision calculator language
• Ballistic coefficient, a measure of air drag on a projectile
• Base curve radius, a parameter of a contact lens
• Battle command, a military process
• Bayonet cap, a standard light bulb connection
• Black carbon, a carbonaceous component of soot
• Buoyancy compensator (diving), a piece of scuba diving equipment

Transportation

• Belaruskaja Čyhunka, the national railway company of Belarus
• NZR BC class, a steam locomotive classification of the New Zealand Railways Department
• Skymark Airlines' IATA airline code

Other uses

• B.C. (comic strip), a comic strip by Johnny Hart, and one of its characters
• BC Powder, a brand of pain reliever
• Basilian Chouerite Order, a religious order
• Bliss bibliographic classification, a library cataloguing system
• BookCrossing, a website that encourages leaving books in public places to be found by others
• Borough Council, a class of second tier council in the United Kingdom
• Brassocattleya or Bc, an orchid genus
• Bureau of Corrections (Philippines), an agency of the Department of Justice of the Philippines
• Business continuity
• Baccalaureus or bc, a Bachelors' degree in the Netherlands

See also

• Blind carbon copy (Bcc:), the practice of sending an e-mail to multiple recipients without disclosing the complete list of recipients