Columbia

Columbia is a bustling college town in , halfway between and Kansas City. It is home of the University of Missouri as well as two other post-secondary institutions Stephens College and Columbia College.
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  • Type: City with 126,000 residents
  • Description: city in and county seat of Boone County, Missouri, United States
  • Also known as: Columbia, Missouri”, “Columbia, MO”, and “CoMo
  • Postal codes: 65201-65203, 65205, 65211, 65212, and 65215-65218

Places of Interest

Highlights include University of Missouri Hospital and Missouri Theatre.

Hospital
University Hospital is located in Columbia, Missouri. It has the only Level I trauma center and helicopter service in Mid-Missouri, and the only burn intensive care unit in the region.

Theater building
The , is a concert and entertainment venue in downtown Columbia, Missouri, occupying most of a city block between 9th street between Locust and Elm Streets.

Heritage site
The , also known as the Strollway Center and Montgomery Ward Building, is a historic commercial building located at the corner of 9th and Cherry Streets in Downtown Columbia, Missouri.

Columbia

Latitude
38.9519° or 38° 57′ 7″ north
Longitude
-92.3337° or 92° 20′ 2″ west
Population
126,000
Elevation
705 feet (215 metres)
IATA airport code
COU
United Nations Location Code
US COU
Open location code
86C9XM28+QG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151709127
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4381982
Wiki­data ID
Q59670
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Columbia” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: Columbia
  • Arabic: كولومبيا
  • Armenian: Կոլումբիա
  • Armenian: Քոլամբիա
  • Azerbaijani: Kolumbiya
  • Basque: Columbia
  • Belarusian: Калумбія
  • Bengali: কলাম্বিয়া, মিজুরি
  • Bulgarian: Кълъмбия
  • Catalan: Columbia
  • Cebuano: Columbia (kapital sa kondado sa Estados Unidos, Missouri)
  • Cebuano: Columbia
  • Chechen: Коламбия
  • Chinese: Columbia
  • Chinese: 哥伦比亚
  • Chinese: 哥倫比亞
  • Czech: Columbia
  • Danish: Columbia
  • Dutch: Columbia
  • Egyptian Arabic: كولومبيا
  • Esperanto: Columbia
  • Finnish: Columbia
  • French: Columbia
  • German: Columbia
  • Gilaki: کؤلؤمبيا (ميزؤري)
  • Gilaki: کؤلؤمبيا
  • Greek: Κολάμπια
  • Greek: Κολούμπια
  • Gujarati: કોલંબિયા
  • Haitian: Columbia, Missouri
  • Haitian: Columbia
  • Hebrew: קולומביה
  • Hindi: कोलंबिया
  • Hungarian: Columbia
  • Ido: Columbia, Missouri
  • Ido: Columbia
  • Inari Sami: Columbia
  • Indonesian: Columbia, Missouri
  • Indonesian: Columbia
  • Irish: Columbia, Missouri
  • Irish: Columbia
  • Italian: Columbia
  • Japanese: コロンビア
  • Kannada: ಕೊಲಂಬಿಯಾ
  • Kazakh: Колумбиа
  • Kirghiz: Колумбиа
  • Korean: 컬럼비아
  • Ladin: Columbia
  • Latin: Columbia
  • Latin: Columbiae
  • Latvian: Kolumbija
  • Lithuanian: Kolimbija
  • Malagasy: Columbia, Missouri
  • Malagasy: Columbia
  • Malay: Columbia
  • Malayalam: കൊളംബിയ, മിസോറി
  • Malayalam: കൊളംബിയ
  • Marathi: कोलंबिया
  • Mazanderani: کلمبیا (میزوری)
  • Mazanderani: کلمبیا
  • Min Nan Chinese: Columbia
  • Northern Luri: کلمبیا، میزوری
  • Northern Sami: Columbia
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Columbia
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Columbia i Missouri
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Columbia
  • Norwegian: Columbia
  • Occitan (post 1500): Columbia
  • Ossetian: Колумби
  • Pampanga: Columbia, Missouri
  • Pampanga: Columbia
  • Persian: کلمبیا، میزوری
  • Persian: کلمبیا
  • Polish: Columbia
  • Portuguese: Columbia
  • Romanian: Columbia, Missouri
  • Romanian: Columbia
  • Russian: Колумбия
  • Sardinian: Columbia
  • Serbian: Коламбија
  • Serbian: Колумбија
  • Serbo-Croatian: Columbia, Missouri
  • Serbo-Croatian: Columbia
  • Silesian: Columbia
  • Sinhala: කොලම්බියා
  • Skolt Sami: Columbia
  • Slovak: Columbia
  • Slovenian: Columbia
  • South Azerbaijani: کلمبیا، میزوری
  • Spanish: Columbia (Misuri)
  • Spanish: Columbia
  • Swahili: Columbia, Missouri
  • Swahili: Columbia
  • Swedish: Columbia, Missouri
  • Swedish: Columbia
  • Tajik: Колумбия
  • Tamil: கொலம்பியா
  • Tatar: Коламбия (Миссури)
  • Tatar: Коламбия
  • Telugu: కొలంబియా
  • Thai: โคลัมเบีย
  • Turkish: Columbia, Missouri
  • Turkish: Columbia
  • Ukrainian: Коламбія
  • Ukrainian: Колумбія
  • Urdu: کولمبیا، مسوری
  • Urdu: کولمبیا
  • Uzbek: Columbia
  • Venetian: Columbia
  • Vietnamese: Columbia, Missouri
  • Vietnamese: Columbia
  • Volapük: Columbia
  • Waray (Philippines): Columbia, Missouri
  • Waray (Philippines): Columbia
  • Welsh: Columbia, Missouri
  • Welsh: Columbia

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