Columbus
Columbus is a city in eastern Mississippi, near the border with Alabama. In some ways, the history of Columbus parallels that of Jackson's, as both were established around 1820 after Mississippi was admitted to statehood and both served as logistics centers for the Confederacy during the Civil War.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 24,200 residents
- Description: county seat of Lowndes County, Mississippi, United States
- Also known as: “Columbus, Mississippi”, “Columbus, MS”, and “Possum Town”
- Postal codes: 39701-39705 and 39710
Places of Interest
Highlights include Friendship Cemetery and Sandfield Cemetery.
Friendship Cemetery
Cemetery
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Friendship Cemetery is a cemetery located in Columbus, Mississippi. In 1849, the cemetery was established on 5 acres by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Sandfield Cemetery
Cemetery
Sandfield Cemetery is a cemetery for African-Americans built in the late 19th-century in Columbus, Mississippi, United States.
Heritage Academy
School
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Heritage Academy is a private school in Columbus, Mississippi. It was founded in 1964 as a segregation academy.
Columbus
- Categories: city in the United States, county seat, and locality
- Location: Lowndes, Mississippi Pines, Mississippi, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
33.4957° or 33° 29′ 44″ northLongitude
-88.4273° or 88° 25′ 38″ westPopulation
24,200Elevation
217 feet (66 metres)IATA airport code
UBSOpen location code
865HFHWF+73OpenStreetMap ID
node 153663842OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Columbus” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Columbus, Mississippi”
- Afrikaans: “Columbus”
- Arabic: “كولومبوس”
- Basque: “Columbus”
- Belarusian: “Каламбус”
- Belarusian: “Калумбус”
- Bulgarian: “Кълъмбъс”
- Catalan: “Columbus”
- Cebuano: “Columbus (kapital sa kondado sa Estados Unidos, Mississippi)”
- Cebuano: “Columbus”
- Chechen: “Коламбус”
- Chinese: “Columbus”
- Chinese: “哥伦布”
- Chinese: “哥倫布”
- Czech: “Columbus”
- Danish: “Columbus”
- Dutch: “Columbus”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كولومبوس”
- Esperanto: “Columbus”
- Finnish: “Columbus”
- French: “Columbus”
- Galician: “Columbus”
- Georgian: “კოლუმბუსი”
- German: “Columbus”
- Gilaki: “کؤلؤمبؤس”
- Haitian: “Columbus, Mississippi”
- Haitian: “Columbus”
- Hebrew: “קולומבוס”
- Hungarian: “Columbus”
- Ido: “Columbus, Mississippi”
- Ido: “Columbus”
- Interlingua: “Columbus”
- Irish: “Columbus”
- Italian: “Columbus”
- Japanese: “コロンバス”
- Kazakh: “Kolwmbws”
- Kazakh: “Колумбус”
- Kazakh: “كولۋمبۋس”
- Kirghiz: “Колумбус”
- Korean: “콜럼버스”
- Ladin: “Columbus”
- Malagasy: “Columbus, Mississippi”
- Malagasy: “Columbus”
- Mazanderani: “کلمبوس”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Columbus”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Columbus”
- Norwegian: “Columbus”
- Persian: “کلامبس”
- Persian: “کلمبوس، میسیسیپی”
- Persian: “کلمبوس”
- Piemontese: “Columbus”
- Polish: “Columbus”
- Portuguese: “Columbus”
- Russian: “Колумбус (Миссисипи)”
- Russian: “Колумбус”
- Serbian: “Коламбус”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Columbus, Mississippi”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Columbus”
- Slovenian: “Columbus”
- South Azerbaijani: “کلمبوس، میسیسیپی”
- Spanish: “Columbus (Misisipi)”
- Spanish: “Columbus”
- Swahili: “Columbus, Mississippi”
- Swahili: “Columbus”
- Swedish: “Columbus, Mississippi”
- Swedish: “Columbus”
- Tatar: “Коламбус (Миссисипи)”
- Tatar: “Коламбус”
- Turkish: “Columbus, Mississippi”
- Turkish: “Columbus”
- Ukrainian: “Коламбус”
- Urdu: “کولمبس، مسیسپی”
- Urdu: “کولمبس”
- Uzbek: “Columbus”
- Uzbek: “Cолумбус”
- Vietnamese: “Columbus, Mississippi”
- Vietnamese: “Columbus”
- Volapük: “Columbus”
- Waray (Philippines): “Columbus, Mississippi”
- Waray (Philippines): “Columbus”
- Welsh: “Columbus, Mississippi”
- Welsh: “Columbus”
- Western Frisian: “Columbus”
- Western Frisian: “Kolumbus”
- “Columbus”
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