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."Leader of nation's biggest campus taking on tenure", Andrew Welsh-Huggins. Boston Globe. February 4, 2010. Retrieved September 14, 2010.

In 2008, MarketWatch named Columbus as the 7th best place to do business in the nation.Market Watch, Best Places to do business. Retrieved July 26, 2009. 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."Fortune 500", CNN Money. 2011. Retrieved June 4, 2011. 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.

 Media 
 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)

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Category:County seats in Ohio
Category:State capitals in the United States
Category:1812 establishments in Ohio
Category:1816 establishments in Ohio