Title: Columbia, South Carolina
Content:  Columbia is the capital of the U.S. state of South Carolina. With a population of 136,632 as of the 2020 U.S. Census, it is the second-largest city in South Carolina. The city serves as the county seat of Richland County, and a portion of the city extends into neighboring Lexington County. It is the center of the Columbia metropolitan statistical area, which had a population of 829,470 and is the 72nd-largest metropolitan statistical area in the nation. The name Columbia is a poetic term used for the United States, derived from the name of Christopher Columbus, who explored for the Spanish Crown. Columbia is often abbreviated as Cola, 
Title: Columbia, South Dakota
Content:  Columbia is located at 45.61139°N, -98.31194°W (45.611364, -98.311929). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.52 sqmi, all land. Columbia has been assigned the ZIP code 57433 and the FIPS place code 13420.
Title: Columbia, South Carolina
Content:  to its nickname as "Soda City." The city is located about 13 mi northwest of the geographic center of South Carolina, and is the primary city of the Midlands region of the state. It lies at the confluence of the Saluda River and the Broad River, which merge at Columbia to form the Congaree River. As the state capital, Columbia is the site of the South Carolina State House, the center of government for the state. In 1860, the South Carolina Secession Convention took place here; delegates voted for secession, making this the first state to leave the Union in the events leading up to the Civil War. 
Title: Columbia, Kentucky
Content:  Columbia is located at 37.10056°N, -85.30611°W (37.100652, −85.306056). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.4 square miles (8.9 km2), all land.
Title: Columbia, Missouri
Content:  Columbia, in northern mid-Missouri, is 120 mi away from both St. Louis and Kansas City, and 29 mi north of the state capital of Jefferson City. The city is near the Missouri River, between the Ozark Plateau and the Northern Plains. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 63.5 sqmi, of which 63.08 sqmi is land and 0.42 sqmi is water.
Title: Columbia, South Carolina, Sesquicentennial half dollar
Content:  The area around what is now Columbia, South Carolina, was settled by British colonials as early as 1718, when Fort Congaree was established at Granby, South Carolina, near the city's present site. Following the end of the American Revolutionary War, the South Carolina Legislature was concerned that the state capital, Charleston, was too vulnerable to attack by sea and too far from the agricultural lands being developed. Accordingly, in 1786, Columbia was designated to be the new capital, one of the first planned cities in the United States. The legislature first met there at the Old State House in 1790. That building proved subject to flooding and damp—a poor place to 
Title: Columbia, Pennsylvania
Content:  Columbia is located in western Lancaster County on the left (east) bank of the Susquehanna River. U.S. Route 30, a four-lane freeway, passes through the northern side of the borough, leading east 11 mi to the Lancaster area and west 13 mi to York. Harrisburg, the state capital, is 30 mi to the northwest, up the Susquehanna. Pennsylvania Route 462 passes through the center of Columbia, leading east to Lancaster and west to York following the old route of US 30. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the borough of Columbia has an area of 6.3 sqkm, of which 0.02 sqkm, or 0.31%, are water. It has a hot-summer humid continental climate (Dfa), and average monthly temperatures range from 30.9 F in January to 75.8 F in July. The hardiness zone is 6b or 7a depending upon elevation.
Title: Columbia, Connecticut
Content:  Columbia is a town in Tolland County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 5,272 at the 2020 census. Originally a part of Lebanon, known as the North Society or Lebanon's Crank, Columbia was incorporated in May 1804. The town was named for patriotic reasons after the national symbol "Columbia". Columbia offers pre-kindergarten through 8th grade education in town at Horace W. Porter School, while high school students have a choice of attending two nearby high schools, E. O. Smith High School, and Windham Technical High School, part of the Connecticut Technical High School System).
Title: Columbia, Tennessee
Content:  Columbia is a city in and the county seat of Maury County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 41,690 as of the 2020 United States census. Columbia is included in the Nashville metropolitan area. The self-proclaimed "mule capital of the world," Columbia annually celebrates the city-designated Mule Day each April. Columbia and Maury County are acknowledged as the "Antebellum Homes Capital of Tennessee"; the county has more antebellum houses than any other county in the state. The city is home to one of the last two surviving residences of James Knox Polk, the 11th President of the United States; the other is the White House.
Title: Columbia, Maryland
Content:  Columbia is a census-designated place in Howard County, Maryland, United States, and is one of the principal communities of the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area. It is a planned community consisting of 10 self-contained villages. Columbia began with the idea that a city could enhance its residents' quality of life. Creator and developer James W. Rouse saw the new community in terms of human values, rather than merely economics and engineering. Opened in 1967, Columbia was intended to not only eliminate the inconveniences of then-current subdivision design, but also eliminate racial, religious and class segregation. Columbia proper consists only of that territory governed by the Columbia Association, but larger areas are included under its name by the U.S. Postal Service and the Census Bureau. These include several other communities which predate Columbia, including Simpsonville, Atholton, and in the case of the census, part of Clarksville. The census-designated place had a population of 104,681 at the 2020 United States Census. It is the second most populous community in Maryland after Baltimore. More recent estimates by the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey put the population at approximately 103,467 as of 2015.

Question: What is Columbia the capital of?
Answer: South Carolina.
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State of South Carolina.
South Carolina, United States.
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Palmetto State.