Columbia

Columbia is the capital city and second largest city in . It is home to the main campus of the University of South Carolina, and to the Army's Fort Jackson.
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  • Type: City with 140,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of the U.S. state of South Carolina and seat of Richland County
  • Also known as: “City of Columbia”, “Cola”, “Columbia, SC”, “Columbia, South Carolina”, and “Soda City”
  • Postal codes: 29201-29211, 29214-29227, 29229, 29230, 29240, 29250, 29260, 29290, and 29292

Places of Interest

Highlights include South Carolina State House and Columbia Museum of Art.

Government building
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The is the building housing the government of the U.S. state of , which includes the South Carolina General Assembly and the offices of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina.

Museum
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The is an art museum in the American city of Columbia, .

Sports venue
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The is a multi-purpose arena in Columbia, South Carolina, primarily home to the University of South Carolina men's and women's basketball teams.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include West Columbia and Elmwood Park.

Town
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, formerly Brookland, is a city and commuter town in the suburban eastern sections of , United States. As of the 2020 census, had a population of 17,416.

Hamlet
is a residential neighborhood and historic district in what is now the center of Columbia, South Carolina. Founded in the early 1900s, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places as Historic District in 1991.

Suburb
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in Columbia, South Carolina is a shopping, restaurant, and nightlife area that attracts customers from the nearby University of South Carolina and the Columbia metropolitan area.

Columbia

Latitude
34.0008° or 34° 0′ 3″ north
Longitude
-81.0352° or 81° 2′ 7″ west
Population
140,000
Elevation
292 feet (89 metres)
IATA airport code
CAE
United Nations Location Code
US CAE
Open location code
866W2X27+8W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 154020768
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4575352
Wiki­data ID
Q38453
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Columbia” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Columbia”
  • Albanian: “Columbia, South Carolina”
  • Albanian: “Columbia”
  • Amharic: “ኮለምቢያ፣ ሳውዝ ካሮላይና”
  • Amharic: “ኮሎምቢያ”
  • Arabic: “كولومبيا، كارولاينا الجنوبيه”
  • Arabic: “كولومبيا”
  • Aragonese: “Columbia”
  • Armenian: “Կոլումբիա”
  • Asturian: “Columbia”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kolumbiya”
  • Bashkir: “Колумбия”
  • Basque: “Columbia”
  • Belarusian: “Калумбія (Паўднёвая Караліна)”
  • Belarusian: “Калумбія”
  • Bengali: “কলাম্বিয়া, দক্ষিণ ক্যারোলাইনা”
  • Bengali: “কলাম্বিয়া”
  • Bislama: “Columbia, Saut Carolina”
  • Bislama: “Columbia”
  • Bosnian: “Columbia”
  • Breton: “Columbia”
  • Bulgarian: “Колумбия”
  • Catalan: “Columbia, South Carolina”
  • Catalan: “Columbia”
  • Cebuano: “Columbia”
  • Central Kanuri: “Columbia, South Carolina”
  • Central Kurdish: “کۆڵومبیا”
  • Chechen: “Колумбия”
  • Chinese: “Columbia”
  • Chinese: “哥伦比亚”
  • Chinese: “哥倫比亞”
  • Cornish: “Columbia, Karolina Dheghow”
  • Cornish: “Columbia”
  • Czech: “Columbia”
  • Danish: “Columbia, South Carolina”
  • Danish: “Columbia”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Columbia”
  • Dutch: “Columbia”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كولومبيا (ساوث كارولاينا)”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كولومبيا”
  • Esperanto: “Columbia, Suda Karolino”
  • Esperanto: “Columbia”
  • Estonian: “Columbia”
  • Faroese: “Columbia”
  • Finnish: “Columbia”
  • French: “Columbia”
  • Galician: “Columbia, Carolina do Sur”
  • Galician: “Columbia”
  • Georgian: “კოლუმბია”
  • German: “Cola Town”
  • German: “Columbia, South Carolina”
  • German: “Columbia”
  • German: “The Big Friendly”
  • German: “The Capital of Southern Hospitality”
  • Gilaki: “کؤلؤمبيا (نسايي کارؤلينا)”
  • Gilaki: “کؤلؤمبيا”
  • Gothic: “𐌺𐍉𐌻𐌿𐌼𐌱𐌾𐌰, 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍂𐌰-𐌺𐌰𐍂𐌰𐌿𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌽𐌰”
  • Gothic: “𐌺𐍉𐌻𐌿𐌼𐌱𐌾𐌰”
  • Greek: “Κολούμπια”
  • Gujarati: “કોલંબિયા, દક્ષિણ કેરોલિના”
  • Gujarati: “કોલંબિયા”
  • Haitian: “Columbia, Kawolin disid”
  • Hausa: “Columbia”
  • Hebrew: “קולומביה”
  • Hindi: “कोलंबिया, दक्षिण कैरोलीना”
  • Hindi: “कोलंबिया”
  • Hungarian: “Columbia, South Carolina”
  • Hungarian: “Columbia”
  • Icelandic: “Columbia”
  • Ido: “Columbia, Sudal Karolina”
  • Ido: “Columbia”
  • Iloko: “Columbia, South Carolina”
  • Iloko: “Columbia”
  • Indonesian: “Columbia, Carolina Selatan”
  • Indonesian: “Columbia, South Carolina”
  • Indonesian: “Columbia”
  • Interlingua: “Columbia, South Carolina”
  • Interlingua: “Columbia”
  • Interlingue: “Columbia”
  • Inuktitut: “ᑰᓘᒻᐲᐊ”
  • Irish: “Columbia, Carolina Theas”
  • Irish: “Columbia”
  • Italian: “Columbia, South Carolina”
  • Italian: “Columbia”
  • Japanese: “コロンビア”
  • Japanese: “コロンビア市”
  • Javanese: “Columbia”
  • Kannada: “ಕೊಲಂಬಿಯಾ”
  • Kashmiri: “کولمبیا، جۆنوٗبی کیرولینا”
  • Kashmiri: “کولمبیا”
  • Kazakh: “Колумбия”
  • Kirghiz: “Колумбия”
  • Komering: “Kolumbia”
  • Korean: “컬럼비아”
  • Kurdish: “Columbia, Karolînaya Başûr”
  • Kurdish: “Columbia, South Carolina”
  • Kurdish: “Columbia”
  • Ladin: “Columbia”
  • Latin: “Columbia”
  • Latvian: “Kolumbija”
  • Ligurian: “Columbia”
  • Lithuanian: “Kolumbija”
  • Lombard: “Columbia, South Carolina”
  • Lombard: “Columbia”
  • Macedonian: “Колумбија”
  • Malagasy: “Columbia, South Carolina”
  • Malagasy: “Columbia”
  • Malay: “Columbia, Carolina Selatan”
  • Malay: “Columbia”
  • Malayalam: “കൊളമ്പിയ, തെക്കൻ കരോലിന”
  • Marathi: “कोलंबिया, दक्षिण कॅरोलिना”
  • Marathi: “कोलंबिया”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Columbia”
  • Mongolian: “Коламбия хот”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “كولومبيا”
  • Navajo: “Tásiilii Hatsoh”
  • Newari: “कोलम्बिया, साउथ क्यारोलाइना”
  • Newari: “कोलम्बिया”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Columbia, South Carolina”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Columbia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Columbia i Sør-Carolina”
  • Norwegian: “Columbia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Columbia”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Columbia”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Columburg”
  • Oromo: “Columbia”
  • Ossetian: “Колумби”
  • Pali: “कोलम्बिया”
  • Pampanga: “Columbia, South Carolina”
  • Pampanga: “Columbia”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੋਲੰਬੀਆ”
  • Persian: “کلمبیا، کارولینای جنوبی”
  • Persian: “کلمبیا”
  • Piemontese: “Columbia”
  • Polish: “Columbia, Karolina Południowa”
  • Polish: “Columbia”
  • Portuguese: “Colúmbia, Carolina do Sul”
  • Portuguese: “Columbia”
  • Portuguese: “Colúmbia”
  • Pushto: “کولمبیا”
  • Quechua: “Columbia”
  • Romanian: “Columbia, Carolina de Sud”
  • Romanian: “Columbia, South Carolina”
  • Romanian: “Columbia”
  • Russian: “Колумбия”
  • Samogitian: “Kolumbija”
  • Samogitian: “Kuolumbėjė”
  • Sanskrit: “कोलम्बिया”
  • Sardinian: “Colùmbia”
  • Scots: “Columbia”
  • Serbian: “Kolumbija”
  • Serbian: “Коламбија”
  • Serbian: “Колумбија, Јужна Каролина”
  • Serbian: “Колумбија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Columbia, South Carolina”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Columbia”
  • Sicilian: “Columbia”
  • Silesian: “Columbia”
  • Sinhala: “කොලොම්බියාව”
  • Slovak: “Columbia”
  • Slovenian: “Columbia”
  • Somali: “Columbia”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کلمبیا، جنوبی کارولینا”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کلمبیا، گونئی کارولینا”
  • Spanish: “Columbia (Carolina del Sur)”
  • Spanish: “Columbia”
  • Swahili: “Columbia, South Carolina”
  • Swahili: “Columbia”
  • Swedish: “Columbia, South Carolina”
  • Swedish: “Columbia”
  • Tagalog: “Columbia, South Carolina”
  • Tagalog: “Columbia”
  • Tajik: “Колумбия”
  • Talysh: “Kolumbijə”
  • Talysh: “Kolumbiya Nıso Karolina”
  • Tamil: “கொலம்பியா, தென் கரொலைனா”
  • Tamil: “கொலம்பியா, தென் கரோலினா”
  • Tamil: “கொலம்பியா”
  • Tatar: “Коламбия (Көньяк Каролина)”
  • Tatar: “Коламбия”
  • Tatar: “Колумбия”
  • Telugu: “కొలంబియా, దక్షిణ కెరొలిన”
  • Telugu: “కొలంబియా”
  • Thai: “โคลัมเบีย”
  • Turkish: “Columbia, Güney Karolina”
  • Turkish: “Columbia”
  • Ukrainian: “Коламбія”
  • Ukrainian: “Колумбія”
  • Urdu: “کولمبیا، جنوبی کیرولائنا”
  • Urdu: “کولمبیا”
  • Uzbek: “Columbia”
  • Uzbek: “Kolumbiya”
  • Venetian: “Columbia”
  • Vietnamese: “Columbia, Nam Carolina”
  • Vietnamese: “Columbia, South Carolina”
  • Vietnamese: “Columbia”
  • Volapük: “Columbia, South Carolina”
  • Volapük: “Columbia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Columbia, South Carolina”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Columbia”
  • Welsh: “Columbia, De Carolina”
  • Welsh: “Columbia”
  • Western Frisian: “Columbia”
  • Western Frisian: “Kolumbia”
  • Western Mari: “Колумби”
  • Wu Chinese: “哥伦比亚 (南卡罗来纳州)”
  • Wu Chinese: “哥伦比亚（南卡罗来纳州）”
  • Yiddish: “קאלאמביע, דרום קאראליינע”
  • Yiddish: “קאלאמביע”
  • Yue Chinese: “哥倫比亞”
  • “Columbia”
  • “Kuolumbėjė”

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