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Columbus

Columbus is the capital of the American state of and is located centrally within the state as the core of the area. Sited in an area where the Rust Belt, Bible Belt, Appalachia, and the Farm Belt meet, Columbus is a fusion of many different parts of America.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Downtown Columbus and University Area.

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is the central business district of Columbus, Ohio. Downtown is centered on the intersection of Broad and High Streets, and encompasses all of the area inside the Inner Belt.

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also known as the University District is the area around the Ohio State University in Columbus, . It also includes the OSU Hospital and The James Cancer Research Hospital.

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Columbus/Northwest is the area north of Interstate 70 and west of Interstate 71, in Columbus, . Included in this area are Grandview Heights, Upper Arlington, Worthington, , and Hilliard neighborhoods.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as South Columbus and Northeast Columbus.

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Columbus/South is defined as being South of I-70 in Columbus, . It includes German Village, Brewery District, New Rome, Valley View, Galloway, Urbancrest, Grove City, Obetz, Groveport and Brice.

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Columbus/Northeast is defined as being north of Interstate 70 and east of Interstate 71, in Columbus, . Included in this area are Westerville, Minerva Park, New Albany, Gahanna, Whitehall and .

Places of Interest

Highlights include Nationwide Arena and ScottsMiracle-Gro Field.

Stadium
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is a multi-purpose arena in the of Columbus, Ohio, United States. Since completion in 2000, the arena has served as the home of the Columbus Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League.

Stadium
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is a in Columbus, Ohio, United States, that serves primarily as the home stadium of the Columbus Crew of Major League Soccer.

Museum
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The is an art museum in downtown Columbus, Ohio. Formed in 1878 as the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, it was the first art museum to register its charter with the state of Ohio.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Grandview Heights and Bexley.

Village
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is a city in , United States. The population was 8,085 at the 2020 census.

Town
is a city in , United States. The population was 13,928 at the 2020 census. The city is a suburban enclave of Columbus, situated on the banks of east of Columbus's .

Town
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is a city in , United States, on the northwest side of the Columbus metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the population was 36,800. The Old Arlington neighborhood is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Columbus

Latitude
39.9623° or 39° 57′ 44″ north
Longitude
-83.0007° or 83° 0′ 3″ west
Population
906,000
Elevation
771 feet (235 metres)
IATA airport code
CMH
United Nations Location Codes
US CMH and US FLH
Open location code
86FRXX6X+WP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153982815
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4509177
Wiki­data ID
Q16567
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Columbus” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Columbus, Ohio”
  • Afrikaans: “Columbus”
  • Albanian: “Columbus”
  • Albanian: “Kolumbus”
  • Amharic: “ኮለምበስ፣ ኦሃዮ”
  • Arabic: “كولومبوس”
  • Aragonese: “Columbus”
  • Armenian: “Կոլումբուս”
  • Asturian: “Columbus, Ohio”
  • Asturian: “Columbus”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kolumbus”
  • Balinese: “Columbus, Ohio”
  • Bambara: “Columbus”
  • Basque: “Columbus”
  • Belarusian: “Каламбус”
  • Belarusian: “Калумбус”
  • Bengali: “কলম্বাস”
  • Bislama: “Columbus, Ohio”
  • Bislama: “Columbus”
  • Bosnian: “Columbus”
  • Breton: “Columbus”
  • Bulgarian: “Кълъмбъс”
  • Catalan: “Columbus”
  • Cebuano: “Columbus”
  • Central Kurdish: “پایتەختی ھونەری سەربەخۆ”
  • Central Kurdish: “شاری تاق”
  • Central Kurdish: “شاری دۆزینەوە”
  • Central Kurdish: “کۆڵومبس، ئۆھایۆ”
  • Central Kurdish: “کۆڵومبس”
  • Chechen: “Колумбус”
  • Chinese: “Columbus”
  • Chinese: “哥伦布 (俄亥俄州)”
  • Chinese: “哥伦布”
  • Chinese: “哥倫布”
  • Chuvash: “Колумбус”
  • Cornish: “Columbus, Ohio”
  • Cornish: “Columbus”
  • Corsican: “Columbus”
  • Croatian: “Columbus, Ohio”
  • Croatian: “Columbus”
  • Czech: “Cbus”
  • Czech: “Columbus”
  • Czech: “Cowtown”
  • Czech: “Největší malé město v Americe”
  • Danish: “Columbus”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Columbus”
  • Dutch: “Columbus”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كولومبوس”
  • Esperanto: “Columbus”
  • Esperanto: “Kolumbo”
  • Estonian: “Columbus”
  • Ewe: “Columbus”
  • Extremaduran: “Columbus”
  • Faroese: “Columbus”
  • Finnish: “Columbus, Ohio”
  • Finnish: “Columbus”
  • French: “Columbus”
  • Galician: “Columbus”
  • Gan Chinese: “哥倫布 (俄亥俄州)”
  • Gan Chinese: “哥倫布”
  • Georgian: “კოლუმბუსი”
  • German: “C-Bus”
  • German: “Columbus”
  • German: “The Arch City”
  • German: “The Discovery City”
  • Gilaki: “کؤلؤمبؤس (اؤهایؤ)”
  • Gilaki: “کؤلؤمبؤس”
  • Gothic: “𐌺𐍉𐌻𐌿𐌼𐌱𐌿𐍃, 𐍉𐌷𐌰𐌾𐍉”
  • Gothic: “𐌺𐍉𐌻𐌿𐌼𐌱𐌿𐍃”
  • Greek: “Κολάμπους”
  • Greek: “Κολόμπους”
  • Guarani: “Columbus”
  • Gujarati: “કોલંબસ”
  • Haitian: “Columbus, Ohio”
  • Haitian: “Columbus”
  • Hausa: “Columbus”
  • Hebrew: “קולומבוס”
  • Hindi: “कोलंबस, ओहायो”
  • Hindi: “कोलम्बस”
  • Hungarian: “Columbus”
  • Icelandic: “Columbus”
  • Ido: “Columbus, Ohio”
  • Ido: “Columbus”
  • Igbo: “Columbus, Ohio”
  • Igbo: “Columbus”
  • Iloko: “Columbus, Ohio”
  • Iloko: “Columbus”
  • Indonesian: “Columbus, Ohio”
  • Indonesian: “Columbus”
  • Interlingua: “Columbus”
  • Interlingue: “Columbus”
  • Inuktitut: “ᑰᕉᒻᐴᔅ”
  • Irish: “Columbus, Ohio”
  • Irish: “Columbus”
  • Italian: “Columbus”
  • Japanese: “コロンバス”
  • Kannada: “ಕೊಲಂಬಸ್”
  • Kazakh: “Колумбус”
  • Kirghiz: “Колумбус”
  • Komering: “Columbus, Ohio”
  • Komering: “Columbus”
  • Korean: “콜럼버스”
  • Kurdish: “Columbus, Ohio”
  • Kurdish: “Columbus”
  • Ladin: “Columbus”
  • Latin: “Columbopolis”
  • Latin: “Columbus”
  • Latvian: “Kolumbusa”
  • Ligurian: “Columbus”
  • Lithuanian: “Kolambusas”
  • Lithuanian: “Kolumbas”
  • Macedonian: “Колумбус”
  • Malagasy: “Columbus, Ohio”
  • Malagasy: “Columbus”
  • Malay: “Columbus, Ohio”
  • Malay: “Columbus”
  • Malayalam: “കൊളംബസ്, ഒഹായൊ”
  • Malayalam: “കൊളംബസ്”
  • Marathi: “कोलंबस”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Columbus”
  • Mingrelian: “კოლუმბუსი”
  • Moksha: “Коламбус”
  • Mongolian: “Колумбус”
  • Navajo: “Bįįhtó”
  • Neapolitan: “Columbus”
  • Newari: “कोलम्बस, ओहायो”
  • Newari: “कोलम्बस”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Columbus”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Columbus i Ohio”
  • Norwegian: “Columbus”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Columbus”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Columburh on Ohioan”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Columburh”
  • Ossetian: “Коламбус”
  • Ossetian: “Колумбус”
  • Pali: “कोलम्बस”
  • Pampanga: “Columbus, Ohio”
  • Pampanga: “Columbus”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਲੰਬਸ, ਓਹਾਇਓ”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਲੰਬਸ”
  • Papiamento: “Columbus”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Columbus, Ohio”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Columbus”
  • Persian: “کلمبوس، اوهایو”
  • Persian: “کلمبوس”
  • Piemontese: “Columbus”
  • Polish: “Columbus”
  • Portuguese: “Columbus, Ohio”
  • Portuguese: “Columbus”
  • Quechua: “Columbus”
  • Romanian: “Columbus, Ohio”
  • Romanian: “Columbus”
  • Russian: “Колумбус”
  • Samogitian: “Kolumbs”
  • Sanskrit: “कोलम्बस्”
  • Sardinian: “Columbus”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Columbus”
  • Scots: “Columbus, Ohio”
  • Scots: “Columbus”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Columbus, Ohio”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Columbus”
  • Serbian: “Коламбус”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Columbus, Ohio”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Columbus”
  • Sicilian: “Columbus”
  • Silesian: “Columbus”
  • Sindhi: “ڪولمبس، اوهايو”
  • Sinhala: “කොලොම්බස්”
  • Slovak: “Columbus”
  • Slovenian: “Columbus, Ohio”
  • Slovenian: “Columbus”
  • Somali: “Kolumbus, Ohio”
  • Somali: “Kolumbus”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کولمبوس”
  • Spanish: “Capital del Arte Indie”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad del Arco”
  • Spanish: “Columbus (Ohio)”
  • Spanish: “Columbus”
  • Spanish: “La Ciudad del Descubrimiento”
  • Spanish: “La pequeña ciudad más grande de América”
  • Swahili: “Columbus, Ohio”
  • Swahili: “Columbus”
  • Swedish: “Columbus, Ohio”
  • Swedish: “Columbus”
  • Tagalog: “Columbus, Ohio”
  • Tagalog: “Columbus”
  • Tajik: “Колумб”
  • Talysh: “Kolumbus”
  • Tamil: “கொலம்பஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Коламбус”
  • Telugu: “కొలంంబస్”
  • Thai: “โคลัมบัส”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Columbus, Ohio”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Columbus”
  • Turkish: “Columbus, Ohio”
  • Turkish: “Columbus”
  • Turkmen: “Kolumbus”
  • Uighur: “Kolumbu, Oxéo”
  • Uighur: “Kolumbu”
  • Ukrainian: “Колумбус”
  • Urdu: “کولمبس، اوہائیو”
  • Urdu: “کولمبس”
  • Uzbek: “Columbus”
  • Uzbek: “Kolumbus”
  • Venetian: “Columbus”
  • Veps: “Kolumbus”
  • Vietnamese: “Columbus, Ohio”
  • Vietnamese: “Columbus”
  • Volapük: “Columbus”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Columbus, Ohio”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Columbus”
  • Welsh: “Columbus, Ohio”
  • Welsh: “Columbus”
  • Western Armenian: “Քոլոմպոս”
  • Western Frisian: “Columbus”
  • Western Frisian: “Kolumbus”
  • Western Mari: “Колумбус”
  • Western Panjabi: “کولمبس، اوہائیو”
  • Western Panjabi: “کولمبس”
  • Wu Chinese: “哥伦布（俄亥俄州）”
  • Wu Chinese: “哥伦布”
  • Yakut: “Колумбус”
  • Yiddish: “קאלומבוס, אהייא”
  • Yiddish: “קאלומבוס”
  • Yoruba: “Columbus, Ohio”
  • Yoruba: “Columbus”
  • Yue Chinese: “哥倫布”
  • “Columbus”
  • “Culùmbus”
  • “Kolumbs”
  • “ma tomo Kolanpa”

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