Columbia

Columbia is a planned city in Howard County, . It differs strongly from most notions of what constitutes a "city," as the planner divided the densely populated, but decidedly suburban in character, city into ten "villages," each of which are divided into several neighborhoods, leaving the city with a less obvious center.
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  • Type: City with 104,000 residents
  • Description: planned community in Howard County, Maryland, United States
  • Also known as: “Columbia, Maryland” and “Columbia, MD”
  • Postal codes: 21044-21046
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Merriweather Post Pavilion and The Mall in Columbia.

Arts center
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is an outdoor concert venue located in the planned community of Columbia, Maryland. In 2010, Merriweather was named the second best amphitheater in the by Billboard magazine.

Shopping center
, also known as the Columbia Mall, is the central for the planned community of Columbia, Maryland, United States. It has over 200 specialty stores and the anchor stores are AMC Theatres, , Main Event Entertainment, Barnes & Noble, JCPenney, Macy's, and Nordstrom.

Park
is a large central in downtown Columbia, Maryland. The park includes the Chrysalis, a 2016 amphitheater with lawn seating.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Owen Brown and Oakland Mills.

Suburb
is one of the ten villages in Columbia, Maryland, United States, established in 1972. Neighborhoods in the village include Dasher Green, Elkhorn and Hopewell. lies south and east of the town center. The village contains the 37-acre park.

Suburb
is one of the 10 villages in Columbia, , United States. It is located immediately east of Town Center, across U.S. Route 29. Neighborhoods in the village of include Steven's Forest, Talbott Springs, and Thunder Hill.

Suburb
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is one of the 10 villages in Columbia, , United States, located to the west of the Town Center with a 2014 population of 13,000 in 4,659 housing units.

Columbia

Latitude
39.2156° or 39° 12′ 56″ north
Longitude
-76.8582° or 76° 51′ 30″ west
Population
104,000
Elevation
407 feet (124 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US ACW
Open location code
87F5648R+6P
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158223559
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4352053
Wiki­data ID
Q397905
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Volapük—“Columbia” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كولومبيا (ميريلاند)”
  • Arabic: “كولومبيا”
  • Armenian: “Կոլումբիա”
  • Asturian: “Columbia”
  • Bengali: “কলম্বিয়া”
  • Catalan: “Columbia”
  • Cebuano: “Columbia”
  • Chinese: “Columbia”
  • Chinese: “哥伦比亚”
  • Chinese: “哥倫比亞”
  • Czech: “Columbia”
  • Dagbani: “Columbia”
  • Danish: “Columbia”
  • Dutch: “Columbia”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كولومبيا، ميريلاند”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كولومبيا”
  • Esperanto: “Columbia”
  • Finnish: “Columbia”
  • French: “Columbia”
  • Galician: “Columbia”
  • German: “Columbia”
  • Gilaki: “کؤلؤمبيا (مريلند)”
  • Gilaki: “کؤلؤمبيا”
  • Greek: “Κολούμπια”
  • Gujarati: “કોલંબિયા”
  • Hebrew: “קולומביה”
  • Hindi: “कोलंबिया”
  • Hungarian: “Columbia”
  • Indonesian: “Columbia”
  • Irish: “Columbia”
  • Italian: “Columbia”
  • Japanese: “コロンビア (メアリーランド州)”
  • Japanese: “コロンビア (メリーランド州)”
  • Japanese: “コロンビア”
  • Kannada: “ಕೊಲಂಬಿಯಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Колумбия”
  • Kirghiz: “Колумбия”
  • Korean: “컬럼비아”
  • Ladin: “Columbia”
  • Latin: “Columbia”
  • Latvian: “Kolumbija”
  • Lithuanian: “Kolumbija”
  • Malay: “Columbia”
  • Malayalam: “കൊളംബിയ, മേരിലാൻഡ്”
  • Marathi: “कोलंबिया”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Columbia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Columbia”
  • Persian: “کلامبیا، مریلند”
  • Persian: “کلمبیا، مریلند”
  • Persian: “کلمبیا”
  • Polish: “Columbia”
  • Portuguese: “Columbia”
  • Russian: “Колумбия (Мэриленд)”
  • Russian: “Колумбия”
  • Serbian: “Коламбија”
  • Serbian: “Колумбија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Columbia, Maryland”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Columbia”
  • Sinhala: “කොලොම්බියාව”
  • Slovak: “Columbia”
  • Slovenian: “Columbia”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کولومبیا، مریلند”
  • Spanish: “Columbia (Maryland)”
  • Spanish: “Columbia”
  • Swedish: “Columbia”
  • Tamil: “கொலம்பியா”
  • Tatar: “Коламбия (Мэриленд)”
  • Tatar: “Коламбия”
  • Telugu: “కొలంబియా”
  • Thai: “โคลอมเบีย”
  • Turkish: “Columbia, Maryland”
  • Turkish: “Columbia”
  • Ukrainian: “Коламбія”
  • Ukrainian: “Колумбія”
  • Urdu: “کولمبیا میریلینڈ”
  • Urdu: “کولمبیا، میریلینڈ”
  • Uzbek: “Columbia”
  • Venetian: “Columbia”
  • Vietnamese: “Columbia”
  • Volapük: “Columbia”

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