# BQ

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**BQ**, **Bq**, or **bq** may refer to:

## Places

- [Navassa Island](/source/Navassa_Island) (FIPS PUB 10-4 territory code BQ)
- [Caribbean Netherlands](/source/Caribbean_Netherlands) (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code) - [.bq](/source/.bq), the country-code Top Level Domain for Caribbean Netherlands
- [British Antarctic Territory](/source/British_Antarctic_Territory) (former ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code)

## Businesses and organizations

- [Aeromar Líneas Aéreas Dominicanas](/source/Aeromar_L%C3%ADneas_A%C3%A9reas_Dominicanas) (IATA airline designator BQ)
- [Bin Quraya](/source/Bin_Quraya), leading heavy equipment rental firm in Saudi Arabia
- [Birds Queensland](/source/Birds_Queensland), the ornithological society of Queensland, Australia
- [Bloc Québécois](/source/Bloc_Qu%C3%A9b%C3%A9cois), a political party of Canada
- [BQ (company)](/source/BQ_(company)), a Spanish user electronics company - [BQ Aquaris](/source/BQ_Aquaris), the company's brand of devices

## Science and technology

- [Becquerel](/source/Becquerel) (Bq), the SI derived unit of radioactivity
- [Benzoquinone](/source/Benzoquinone), a chemical compound
- [BQ.1](/source/BQ.1) and [BQ.1.1](/source/BQ.1.1) (Cerberus), SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variants
- [BQ-788](/source/BQ-788), a selective ETB antagonist
- [BQ-123](/source/BQ-123), a cyclic peptide
- [Broadcast quality](/source/Broadcast_quality), a video quality standard for broadcast television

## Other uses

- Boston Qualifier, a qualifier in the [Boston Marathon](/source/Boston_Marathon)
- [Band Queer](/source/List_of_Texas_Aggie_terms#B), etymologically Band Qualified, a member of the [Fightin' Texas Aggie Band](/source/Fightin'_Texas_Aggie_Band)
- [Blood quantum laws](/source/Blood_quantum_laws), laws in the United States that define Native American status by fractions of Native American ancestry.

## See also

- [BBQ](/source/BBQ), shorthand for barbecue
- [BQS (disambiguation)](/source/BQS_(disambiguation))
- [B&Q](/source/B%26Q), a British retailer

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