Greater Columbus
Greater Columbus is the metropolitan area centered on the city of Columbus, in the center of Ohio. Its population was about 2.1 million in 2017, of which almost 900,000 lived in Columbus.Photo: Mark Spearman, CC BY 2.0.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Columbus and Dublin.
Columbus
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Columbus is the capital of the American state of Ohio and is located centrally within the state as the core of the Greater Columbus 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.
Dublin
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Dublin is an upscale suburb in the Greater Columbus area of Ohio that is about 20 mi northwest of Columbus.
Delaware
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Delaware is a quaint town of 41,000 people in the Greater Columbus region of Ohio. Delaware is home to the liberal Ohio Wesleyan University. It is the birthplace of Rutherford B.
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Newark
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Newark is a city in Licking County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. It is located 40 miles east of Columbus at the junction of the forks of the Licking River.
Mount Vernon
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Mount Vernon is the county seat of Knox County, Ohio. It has a small, cute downtown, and is home to Mount Vernon Nazarene University and the manufacturer Ariel.
Worthington
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Worthington is a city in the Greater Columbus area of Ohio. Located slightly North of Columbus on State Route 23. Founded in 1803, with a New England heritage reflected in its authentic brick sidewalks and central Village Green, many of the city’s original commercial buildings and churches still stand.
Reynoldsburg
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Reynoldsburg is a city in the Greater Columbus area of Ohio. It is part of Franklin, Fairfield, and Licking counties.
Marysville
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Marysville is a city in Union County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. The population was 25,571 at the 2020 census. It is a suburb approximately 27 miles northwest of Columbus.
London
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London is a city in and the county seat of Madison County, Ohio, United States. Located about 25 miles southwest of the Ohio capital of Columbus, London was established in 1811 to serve as the county seat.
Lancaster
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Lancaster is a city in the Greater Columbus area of Ohio. It is the county seat of Fairfield County.
Powell
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Powell is a city in the Greater Columbus area of Ohio. Powell is a Columbus upscale bedroom community with several luxury neighborhoods. It is located in Liberty Township, Delaware County's first settlement.
Heath
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Heath is a city in Licking County, Ohio, United States, and is located approximately 30 mi east of Columbus. The population was 10,412 at the 2020 census.
Canal Winchester
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Canal Winchester is a city in Fairfield and Franklin counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. The population was 9,107 at the 2020 census. It is a suburb in the Columbus metropolitan area.
Hebron
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Hebron is a village in Licking County, Ohio, United States. The population was 2,326 at the 2020 census.
Sunbury
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Sunbury is a village in the Greater Columbus area of Ohio, approx. 18 miles north of Columbus. Although a small village, it has had explosive growth over the past few years and all evidence points to more of the same.
Granville
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Granville is a village in Licking County, Ohio, United States. The population was 5,946 at the 2020 census. The village is located in a rural area of hills, known locally as the Welsh Hills, in central Ohio.
Gambier
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Tiny Gambier is a college town in Knox County, Ohio, centered around Kenyon College. The village of Gambier mostly consists of Kenyon's campus, which is quiet, pretty, and historic. The liberal-arts college has a student body of 1,900 in a village of 2,200.
Fredericktown
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Fredericktown is a village of 2,600 people on the outskirts of Greater Columbus.
Greater Columbus
- Type: Economic region with 1,900,000 residents
- Description: metropolitan area centered on Columbus, Ohio, USA
- Also known as: “18140”, “Central Ohio”, “Columbus area”, “Columbus metro area”, “Columbus metropolitan area”, “Columbus metropolitan area, Ohio”, “Columbus metropolitan statistical area”, “Columbus, OH”, “Columbus, OH Metro Area”, “Columbus, OH metropolitan area”, “Columbus, OH Metropolitan Statistical Area”, and “Columbus, Ohio metropolitan area”
- Category: metropolitan statistical area
- Location: Ohio, Midwest, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From French to Urdu—“Greater Columbus” goes by many names.
- French: “aire métropolitaine de Columbus”
- French: “Aire métropolitaine de Columbus”
- German: “Metropolregion Columbus”
- Italian: “Area metropolitana di Columbus”
- Japanese: “コロンバス・オハイオ都市圏”
- Persian: “منطقه کلانشهری کلمبوس، اوهایو”
- Persian: “منطقه کلانشهری کلمبوس”
- Slovenian: “metropolitansko območje Columbusa”
- Spanish: “Área metropolitana de Columbus”
- Ukrainian: “Колумбус, штат Огайо”
- Urdu: “کولمبس میٹروپولیٹن علاقہ، اوہائیو”
- Urdu: “کولمبس میٹروپولیٹن علاقہ”
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