Columbia - Places in North America, Other places in the U.S., Well-known companies

34°00N 81°03W, pop (2000e) 116 300. State capital in Richland Co, C South Carolina, USA; at the confluence of the Broad and Saluda Rivers, which join to form the Congaree R; settled, early 1700s; state capital, 1786; city status, 1854; burned by General Sherman, 1865; airfield; railway; two universities (1801, 1870); commercial and trading centre in a rich farming area; printing; textiles, plastics, electrical equipment, machinery.

Places in North America

Columbia River British Columbia District of Columbia Mount Columbia (Colorado) Mount Columbia (Alberta) Columbia Glacier (Alaska) Columbia Glacier (Washington) Columbia Peak in the state of Washington Columbia Icefield in Alberta and British Columbia

U.S. cities or towns

Columbia, South Carolina, the state capital Columbia, Connecticut Columbia, California Columbia, Illinois Columbia, Louisiana Columbia, Maryland Columbia, Mississippi Columbia, Missouri Columbia, New Hampshire Columbia, New Jersey Columbia, New York Columbia, North Carolina Columbia, Pennsylvania Columbia, Tennessee Columbia, Virginia

Other places in the U.S.

Columbia Beach, Washington Columbia Center, New York Columbia Center, Ohio Columbia City, Indiana Columbia City, Oregon Columbia County, Arkansas Columbia County, Georgia Columbia County, New York Columbia County, Oregon Columbia County, Pennsylvania Columbia County, Washington Columbia Cross Roads, Pennsylvania Columbia Heights, Minnesota Columbia Heights, Oregon Columbia Heights, Washington, DC Columbia Station, Ohio Columbia Township, Jackson County, Michigan Columbia Township, Tuscola County, Michigan Columbia Township, Van Buren County, Michigan Columbia Valley Gardens, Washington

Well-known companies

Columbia Aircraft Columbia Automobile Company Columbia Bicycles Columbia Management Group Columbia Pictures Columbia Broadcasting System, which became CBS Columbia Records Columbia Sportswear Columbia University Press, publisher of the Columbia Encyclopedia

Educational institutions

Columbia University any of several Columbia Colleges Columbia Theological Seminary Columbia School of Broadcasting

Technology

Columbia Nuclear Generating Station in Washington Columbia (supercomputer), a NASA supercomputer

Vehicles

Space shuttle Columbia, which disintegrated during reentry in 2003 the Apollo 11 Command/Service Module USS Columbia, several ships of the US Navy Airplane piloted by Clarence Duncan Chamberlin when he was the second person to solo across the Atlantic HMS Columbia, several ships of the Royal Navy The type 2-4-2 railroad locomotive is called a Columbia in the Whyte notation Columbia automobile, Hartford, Connecticut, United States (1893-1917) Lightship Columbia, WLV-604.

Railroad passenger trains

Columbian (B&O), a former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad train between Jersey City, New Jersey and Chicago, Illinois Columbian (passenger train), a former Milwaukee Road train between Chicago and Tacoma

Fictional uses

a spaceship in Wally Wood's comic story Dark Side of the Moon, published in 1950 Columbia (NX-02), a fictional starship on the television series Star Trek: Enterprise a character in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, played by "Little" Nell Campbell a song by Paul van Dyk on "Out There And Back" Columbia Airlines fictional airline from Airport 1975

Songs

Columbia, Gem of the Ocean, an historical patriotic song still occasionally sung in the U.S./ by Americans Columbia (song), a song on the 1994 Oasis album Definitely Maybe Hail, Columbia, currently, the official anthem of the Vice President and historically, was an early anthem of the United States Roll on Columbia, a 1941 popular song by Woody Guthrie about the Columbia River

Other

Columbia Station, a station on the Vancouver SkyTrain.