Columbia

Columbia is a transcontinental country in North America and Asia. It has land borders with Russia, Japan, North Korea, and China, as well as the Canadian province of Alberta and territory of Northwest Territories, and US states of Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, and California.
Like neighbouring Canada, Columbia is a Commonwealth Realm, with the current Prime Minister being John Horgan, and the current Governor-General being Janet Austin.
Columbia is a bilingual English/Russian nation, with French, Spanish, and Japanese also being recognized minority languages.
The capital is Victoria, Vancouver Island, and the largest city is Vancouver, Illaheechuk. Other major cities include Seattle, Sacramento, Portland, Bloodywoodstock, and Sapporo.
==History==
===Native Americans and First Nations before contact===
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===European exploration; Russian and British colonization===
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===Expansion of British colonies in the Pacific area===
There were many disputes between the British colonies and the United States. However, on June 15, 1846, the Oregon Treaty was signed, handing over all of the Oregon Country, with the exception of a small area now part of the State of Wyoming, to the UK. 
In 1848, Britain participated in the Mexican-American War, after Mexico attempted to invade the Oregon Country, and gained an area in the northwest of the Mexican Cession, known as British California (now the provinces of Elizabeth, Nataqua, and British California), in 1848 with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
On October 18, 1867, the largest transfer of territory in history, known as the Alaska and Siberia Purchase, occcured, with Britain acquiring a large area of land (now the Columbian territories of Alaska, Bering, Kodiak, Yukon, Unalaska, and Amure) from the Russian Empire.
===Confederation===
The colonies of British Columbia (now divided into Omineca and Illaheechuk), Oregon (now divided into Cascadia, Confederation, Oregon, Idaho, and Kootenai), British California, British Alaska and Siberia, and Vancouver Island all refused to join the Canadian Confederation, not wanting to be governed from Ottawa, instead forming their own confederation known as Columbia on July 20, 1871.
The original provinces and territories were the following:
*Omineca
*Illaheechuk
*Vancouver Island
*Oregon
*British California
*Alaska Territory
*Siberia Territory
===World Wars===
Columbia fought on the same side as Britain and Canada in both World Wars. After WWII, Columbia gained Hokkaido and Tohoku from Japan in the Treaty of Sacramento, being the only actual expansion of Columbia since its founding (as all other new provinces and territories were carved out from existing provinces and territories).
==Divisions==
===Provinces===
*Omineca
*Illaheechuk
*Vancouver Island
*Cascadia
*Confederation
*Oregon
*Kootenai
*Idaho
*Nataqua
*Elizabeth
*British California
*Hokkaido
*Tohoku
===Territories===
*Alaska
*Bering
*Kodiak
*Yukon
*Unalaska
*Amure
==National symbols==
===Flag===
The original flag was a banner-of-arms of the coat of arms of Columbia, featuring an Union Jack, ocean waves, and a rising sun. A modified version of this original flag (with added First Nations symbolism) is currently used as the flag of the province of Illaheechuk.
The current flag, known as “Old Doug”, was adopted in 1969, influenced by neighbouring Canada then-recently ditching its colonial Red Ensign in favour of the “Maple Leaf” flag. It depicts a blue/white/green tricolour with a dark green Douglas Fir in the centre.
===Coat of arms===
The Coat of Arms of Columbia is the same design as the former coat of arms of the British Columbia colony pre-Confederation.
===Motto===
The motto of the country, used on the coat of arms, is “Splendor sine occasu”, which is Latin for "Splendour without diminishment".
===National anthem===
The anthem, Columbia my Home, was written in 1951, but was not officially adopted until 1982. The instrumental can be listened to here. The lyrics:
Columbia my home;
Where ever I may roam;
This is my land, my native land,
Columbia, my home.
Our verdant forest green,
Caressed by silvery stream;
From mountain peak to fields of wheat.
Columbia, my home.
 
There's peace you feel and understand
In this, our own beloved land.
We greet the day with head held high,
And forward ever is our cry.
We'll happy ever be
As people always free.
For you and me a destiny;
Columbia my home.
Like in Canada, “God Save The King/Queen” is also used as a royal anthem.
===Other symbols===
The internet TLD for Columbia is .cb.
Columbia is assigned the ITU callsign prefixes VA, VB, VC, VD, VE, VF, VG, VX, and VY, but only the first 7 are actually used in practice.
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