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BC most often refers to:
- Before Christ, a calendar era based on the traditionally reckoned year of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth
- British Columbia, the westernmost province of Canada
- Baja California, a state of Mexico
BC may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
- "B.C.", a song by Sparks from the 1974 album Propaganda
- B.C. (comic strip) by Johnny Hart, and one of its characters
- BC (video game) by Lionhead Studios
- BC The Archaeology of the Bible Lands, a BBC television series
- Bullet Club, a professional wrestling stable
Businesses and organizations
- Basilian Chouerite Order of Saint John the Baptist, an order of the Greek Catholic Church
- BC Card, a Korean credit card company
- Bella Center, a conference center in Copenhagen, Denmark
- Brasseries du Cameroun, a brewery in Cameroon (also known as SABC)
- Brunswick Corporation (NYSE ticker symbol BC)
Education
United States
- Bakersfield College, a college in Bakersfield, California
- Bellevue College, a college in Bellevue, Washington
- Benedictine College, a college in Atchison, Kansas
- Benedictine Military School, a high school in Savannah, Georgia
- Bergen Catholic High School, a high school in Oradell, New Jersey
- Boston College, a university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
- Boston College Eagles, its athletic teams
- Brazosport College, a college in Lake Jackson, Texas
- Broward College, a college in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Worldwide
- Baccalaureus or bc, a Bachelor's degree in the Netherlands
- Baghdad College, a high school in Baghdad, Iraq
- British Council
Science and technology
- Backcrossing, a crossing of a hybrid with one of its parents, or a genetically similar individual
- Backward compatibility, the ability of new software to work similarly to its predecessor
- Ballistic coefficient, a measure of air drag on a projectile
- Base curve radius, a parameter of a contact lens
- Battle command, a military discipline
- Bayonet cap, a standard light bulb connection
- bc (programming language), an arbitrary-precision calculator language
- Black carbon, a carbonaceous component of soot
- Bliss bibliographic classification, a library cataloguing system
- × Brassocattleya or Bc., an orchid genus
- Buoyancy compensator (diving), a piece of scuba diving equipment
Transportation
- NZR BC class, a type of steam locomotive
- Skymark Airlines (IATA airline code BC)
Other uses
- Bullcrap, a phrase denoting something worthless
- "B.C.", nickname of Burr Chamberlain (1877–1933), American football player and coach
- Baguio, a city in the Philippines, locally abbreviated as "B.C."
- BC Powder, a brand of pain reliever
- BookCrossing, a website that encourages leaving books in public places to be found by others
- Botswana, WMO country code (and obsolete NATO and FIPS country codes)
See also
- BC Cygni, a red supergiant star that is one of the largest stars
- Belaruskaja Čyhunka (BCh), the national railway company of Belarus
- Blind carbon copy (Bcc:), the practice of sending an e-mail to multiple recipients without disclosing the complete list of recipients