British Columbia (Canada) is 3.3 times larger than Ecuador.
Area: 283,561 km2 World Factbook
Population: 15,654,411 (July 2014) World Factbook
Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Wikipedia
British Columbia, also commonly referred to by its initials BC, is a province located on the west coast of Canada. British Columbia is also a component of the Pacific Northwest, along with the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington. Wikipedia