Columbia County

Columbia County is a county in the U.S. state of . At the 2020 census, the population was 61,570. The county seat is . The name comes from the Latin feminine form of the surname of Christopher Columbus, which was at the time of the formation of the county a popular proposal for the name of the .
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is a village and a township in Columbia County in the state of , about 20 miles south of . The village of is a pretty town in a very rural area of New York State.

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is in Columbia County, , on the border with the , . was the main spiritual home of the Shakers, a Christian sect who practice a celibate and communal lifestyle, pacifism, uniform charismatic worship, and equality of the sexes.

Columbia County

Latitude of center
42.2415° or 42° 14′ 29″ north
Longitude of center
-73.6723° or 73° 40′ 20″ west
Population
63,100
Elevation
561 feet (171 metres)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316976693
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
5113366
Wiki­data ID
Q115200
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Columbia County” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Columbia County”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة كولومبيا”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعه كولومبيا، نيويورك”
  • Armenian: “Կոլումբիա շրջան”
  • Asturian: “condáu de Columbia”
  • Basque: “Columbia konderria”
  • Bavarian: “Columbia County, New York”
  • Bavarian: “Columbia County”
  • Belarusian: “Калумбія”
  • Belarusian: “Калюмбія”
  • Bishnupriya: “কলম্বিয়া কাউন্টি, নিউ ইয়র্ক”
  • Bishnupriya: “কলম্বিয়া কাউন্টি”
  • Bulgarian: “Колумбия”
  • Catalan: “Comtat de Columbia”
  • Cebuano: “Columbia County”
  • Chechen: “Колумбия (гуо, Нью-Йорк)”
  • Chechen: “Колумбия”
  • Chinese: “Columbia Kūn”
  • Chinese: “哥伦比亚县”
  • Chinese: “哥倫比亞縣”
  • Chinese: “哥倫比亞郡”
  • Czech: “Columbia County”
  • Czech: “Columbia”
  • Dutch: “Columbia County”
  • Esperanto: “Columbia County”
  • Esperanto: “kantono Columbia”
  • Esperanto: “Kantono Columbia”
  • Esperanto: “kantono Kolumbio”
  • Finnish: “Columbian piirikunta”
  • French: “Columbia County”
  • French: “comté de Columbia”
  • French: “Comté de Columbia”
  • Georgian: “კოლუმბიის ოლქი”
  • German: “Columbia County”
  • Gilaki: “کلمبیا شأرستان (نيۊیؤرک)”
  • Gilaki: “کلمبیا شأرستان”
  • Greek: “Κομητεία Κολούμπια”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז קולומביה”
  • Hungarian: “Columbia megye”
  • Irish: “Contae Columbia, Nua-Eabhrac”
  • Irish: “Contae Columbia”
  • Italian: “Columbia County”
  • Italian: “contea di Columbia”
  • Italian: “Contea di Columbia”
  • Japanese: “コロンビア郡”
  • Korean: “컬럼비아군”
  • Latin: “Columbia Comitatus”
  • Low German: “Columbia County”
  • Marathi: “कोलंबिया काउंटी”
  • Mazanderani: “کلمبیا شهرستان (نیویورک)”
  • Mazanderani: “کلمبیا شهرستان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Columbia Gông”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Columbia Kūn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Columbia County i New York”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Columbia County”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Columbia fylke”
  • Norwegian: “Columbia County”
  • Persian: “شهرستان کلمبیا، نیویورک”
  • Persian: “شهرستان کلمبیا”
  • Polish: “Hrabstwo Columbia”
  • Portuguese: “Columbia County”
  • Portuguese: “condado de Columbia”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Columbia”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Columbia, New York”
  • Romanian: “comitatul Columbia”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Columbia”
  • Russian: “Колумбия”
  • Sardinian: “contea de Columbia”
  • Serbian: “Округ Коламбија”
  • Serbian: “Округ Колумбија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Columbia County, New York”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Columbia County”
  • Slovenian: “Columbia County”
  • Slovenian: “Okrožje Columbia”
  • Spanish: “Columbia County”
  • Spanish: “condado de Columbia”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Columbia”
  • Swedish: “Columbia County, New York”
  • Swedish: “Columbia County”
  • Tatar: “Колумбия (округ, Нью-Йорк)”
  • Tatar: “Колумбия”
  • Turkish: “Columbia County, N.Y.”
  • Turkish: “Columbia County, New York”
  • Turkish: “Columbia County, NY”
  • Turkish: “Columbia County”
  • Turkish: “Columbia ilçesi, N.Y.”
  • Turkish: “Columbia ilçesi, New York”
  • Turkish: “Columbia ilçesi, NY”
  • Turkish: “Columbia ilçesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Колумбія”
  • Urdu: “کولمبیا کاؤنٹی، نیویارک”
  • Urdu: “کولمبیا کاؤنٹی”
  • Venetian: “contea de Columbia”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Columbia, New York”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Columbia, Nữu Ước”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Columbia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Columbia, New York”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Columbia”
  • Welsh: “Columbia County, Efrog Newydd”
  • Welsh: “Columbia County”
  • Western Panjabi: “کولمبیا کاؤنٹی”

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