Columbus, Ohio

**Columbus** is the capital city and largest city of the U.S. state of Ohio. It is in the middle of the state. The Ohio State Buckeyes and Columbus Blue Jackets play there. In 2020 there were 905,748 people.

Columbus is the second largest city in the American Midwest, and the fourteenth largest city in the United States of America. It is the county seat of Franklin County. The city has expanded and annexed portions of adjoining Delaware County and Fairfield County. It is named for explorer Christopher Columbus. The city was founded in 1812 at the confluence of the Scioto and Olentangy rivers. It became Ohio's state capital in 1816. The city has a diverse economy based on education, government, insurance, banking, fashion, defense, aviation, food, clothes, logistics, steel, energy, medical research, health care, hospitality, retail, and technology.

Columbus has many technology companies. It has the world's largest private research and development foundation, the Battelle Memorial Institute; CAS, or Chemical Abstracts Service, the world's largest clearinghouse of chemical information; NetJets, the world's largest fractional ownership jet aircraft fleet; and The Ohio State University, the nation's largest campus.

In 2008, ***MarketWatch*** named Columbus as the 7th best place to do business in the nation. In 2011, the city had five corporations named to the U.S. Fortune 500 list including Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, American Electric Power, Limited Brands, Momentive Specialty Chemicals, and Big Lots. Major foreign corporations operating or with divisions in the city include Germany-based Siemens and Roxane Laboratories, Finland-based Vaisala, Tomasco Mulciber Inc., and A Y Manufacturing, as well as Switzerland-based ABB Group and Mettler Toledo.

### Television stations

|Channel|Callsign|Format|
| --- | --- | --- |
|4|WCMH-TV|(NBC)|
|6|WSYX-TV|(ABC)|
|8|WGCT-CD|(Ind)|
|10|WBNS-TV|(CBS)|
|17|WDEM-CD|(Ind)|
|23|W23BZ-D|(Ind)|
|28|WTTE|(Fox)|
|33|WCSN-LD|(Ind)|
|34|WOSU-TV|(PBS)|
|48|WCPX-LP|(AZA)|
|51|WSFJ-TV|(TBN)|
|53|WWHO|(CW)|

## Infobox (settlement)

- **name**: Columbus
- **settlement type**: List of US state capitals, State capital city
- **image caption**: <small>Clockwise from top: Downtown Columbus, Ohio, Downtown and the Scioto Mile, the Ohio Statehouse, Ohio Stadium, The Short North, and McFerson Commons and its Union Station arch</small>
- **image flag**: Flag of Columbus, Ohio.svg
- **flag size**: 140px
- **image seal**: Columbus seal.png
- **image blank emblem**: Columbus wordmark.svg
- **blank emblem size**: 150px
- **blank emblem type**: Wordmark
- **map caption**: Map of Columbus, Ohio
- **pushpin map**: Ohio#USA
- **pushpin map caption**: Location of Columbus in Ohio##Location of Columbus in the United States
- **pushpin relief**: yes
- **subdivision type**: Country
- **subdivision type1**: U.S. state, State
- **subdivision type2**: List of counties in Ohio, Counties
- **subdivision name2**: Franklin County, Ohio, Franklin, Delaware County, Ohio, Delaware, Fairfield County, Ohio, Fairfield
- **established title**: Settled
- **named for**: Christopher Columbus
- **established title2**: Incorporated
- **leader title**: List of mayors of Columbus, Ohio, Mayor
- **leader name**: Andrew Ginther
- **leader party**: Democratic Party (United States), D
- **leader title1**: Columbus City Council, City Council
- **unit pref**: Imperial
- **area total sq mi**: 226.26
- **area total km2**: 586.00
- **area land sq mi**: 220.40
- **area land km2**: 570.82
- **area water sq mi**: 5.86
- **area water km2**: 15.18
- **elevation m**: 275
- **elevation ft**: 902
- **population total**: 905748
- **population as of**: 2020 United States Census, 2020
- **population rank**: List of United States cities by population, 14th in the United States
List of cities in Ohio, 1st in Ohio
- **population density sq mi**: 4109.64
- **population density km2**: 1586.74
- **population urban**: 1,567,254 (List of United States urban areas, US: 35th)
- **population density urban km2**: 1,172.3
- **population density urban sq mi**: 3,036.4
- **population metro**: 2138926 (List of metropolitan statistical areas, US: 33rd)
- **population demonym**: Columbusite
- **postal code type**: ZIP Codes
- **area code type**: North American Numbering Plan, Area codes
- **area code**: Area codes 614 and 380, 614 and 380
- **utc offset**: −5
- **timezone dst**: Eastern Daylight Time, EDT
- **utc offset dst**: −4
- **blank name**: Federal Information Processing Standards, FIPS code
- **blank info**: 39-18000
- **blank1 name**: Geographic Names Information System, GNIS feature ID
- **blank1 info**: 1080996
- **blank2 name**: Major airports
- **blank2 info**: John Glenn Columbus International Airport, Rickenbacker International Airport
- **blank3 name**: Local transportation
- **blank3 info**: Central Ohio Transit Authority