Colombia (a country in South America) · Columbia (a river in the western United States and Canada) · Columbia (numerous cities, towns, unincorporated communities and census-designated places in the United States)
Colombia (a country in South America) · Columbia (a river in the western United States and Canada) · Columbia (numerous cities, towns, unincorporated communities and census-designated places in the United States)
From Italian Colombo (“Cristoforo Colombo”) + -ia. Named after Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus (1451–1506) in 1819, from Francisco de Miranda's use of the term to designate Spanish America in the 1790s.