The huge Canadian province of British Columbia, commonly known as BC, requires four regions, illustrated with almost 600 panoramas:

• Northern British Columbia

• The Coast and Islands of British Columbia

• Vancouver and the Lower Mainland

• The Interior and Rocky Mountains

To begin, click one of the four regions listed here, or scroll down to see a detailed list of localities.

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After central California my second choice for "favorite place" would be British Columbia. Nice people, great scenery, sophisticated cities, diversity and opportunity, truly one of the world's favored places.

I manage to visit BC almost every year and have poked into just about every locality that can be reached by road and a few that can't. In late summer and fall of 2010 I passsed through BC twice on my trip to the Yukon and Alaska. Northbound I took the Goldrush Trail and the Alaska Highway, southbound I followed the Cassiar Highway with a side trip to Stewart, then the long ferry ride down the Inside Passage.

I intend to continue my explorations of BC in the summer of 2013, checking off a list of places I have missed in the Rockies, Columbia Mountains, and Vancouver. The most elusive destination remains the Queen Charlotte Islands.

I have divided BC into four regions:

• Northern BC encompasses almost half the province, everything from the Yellowhead Highway north, a vast and mostly unsettled area including the Alaska and Cassiar Highways

• The Coast and Islands of British Columbia includes the Inside Passage, Vancouver Island, the city of Victoria, a number of smaller islands in the Straits of Georgia, and the Sunshine Coast

• Vancouver and the Lower Mainland is a relatively small area, just the city of Vancouver and adjacent lowland areas, but this is where most of the province's population is found

• The Interior and Rocky Mountains region covers everything inland from the Coast Mountains, including part of the Canadian Rockies

Contact Don Bain: DonBain@360Panos.com