PRC (disambiguation)

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PRC or .prc may refer to:

• People's Republic of China, a country in East Asia
• Palestine Red Crescent Society, a humanitarian organization
• Popular Resistance Committees, various Palestinian militant organizations which operates in the Gaza Strip
• Postal Regulatory Commission, an independent regulatory agency
• Producers Releasing Corporation, one of the larger Hollywood production conglomerates of Poverty Row of the late 30s-mid 40s
• Protestant Reformed Churches in America, a Protestant denomination of 27 churches and over 7,000 members
• Regionalist Party of Cantabria, the second oldest political party in the Spanish Autonomous Community of Cantabria
• Communist Refoundation Party, an Italian reformed communist party
• Professional Regulation Commission, an agency of the government of the Republic of the Philippines
• Prestige class (PrC), in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game
• Phase response curve
• Peterborough Regional College
• Physical Recreation Centre
• Planning Research Corporation, a think tank in the metropolitan Washington, D.C. area
• Portable Radio, Communication, an example is the AN/PRC-77 Portable Transceiver
• Ernest A. Love Field (IATA code: PRC), a public airport near Prescott, Arizona

In computers:

• Volunteer computing or Public Resource Computing, a type of distributed computing
• Procfs, short for process filesystem: a pseudo-filesystem which is used to access kernel information about processes on Unix-like computers
• Mobipocket, a type of e-book
• .prc, the file extension of executables for Palm OS