Columbia
☆ Co·lum·bia (kə lum′bē ə, -byə)
Co·lum·bia (kə lum′bē ə, -byə)
Etymology: after Columbia, personification of the U.S.
capital of S.C., on the Congaree River: pop. 116,000- city in central Mo.: pop. 85,000
Etymology: after Columbia, personification of the U.S.
- city in NC Md., southwest of Baltimore: pop. 88,000
- river rising in SE British Columbia and flowing south & west through Wash., & along the Wash.-Oreg. border into the Pacific: 1,210 mi (1,947 km)
Etymology: after the name of the first ship to enter it (1792)
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