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Columbia is a name used in the English language for the many things and places. The name is dervived from that of Christopher Columbus.
The name "Columbia" is/was a poetic name for the United States of America, which largely fell out of use in the early 20th century. Columbia was also a female personification of the USA, similar to the male Uncle Sam, often seen in political cartoons through the early 20th century.
The term Columbian has been occasionally used as an alternative for "American" when refering to someone from the United States: see Usian.
Places named "Columbia" include:
Things named Columbia include:
Columbia shouldn't be confused with Colombia, a country in South America, (also named after Christopher Columbus).
There is also the constellation Columba, the dove.
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