BC Geographical Names

{{Short description|Website for official place names in British Columbia, Canada}} {{one source|date=May 2024}} {{third-party|date=May 2024}} The '''BC Geographical Names''' (formerly '''BC Geographical Names Information System''' or '''BCGNIS''') is a [[Geography|geographic]] name [[web service]] and [[database]] for the [[Canada|Canadian]] province of [[British Columbia]] run by the Base Mapping and Geomatic Services Branch of the Integrated Land Management Bureau. BCGNIS is the master database of British Columbia place names. The database contains approximately 50,000 current and former official names and spellings of [[town]]s, [[mountain]]s, [[river]]s, [[lake]]s, and other geographic places in British Columbia. About 50% of the names have brief notes about the history of the geographic names, and their use in [[history]].

==External links== * {{Official website|https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/governments/celebrating-british-columbia/historic-places/geographical-names}} * [https://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/web/ Official app]

[[Category:Geocodes]] [[Category:Names of places in Canada]] [[Category:Online databases]] [[Category:Government databases in Canada]]