Columbia

For the country in South America, see Colombia.

Columbia is the original name for the United States and inspired the names of many things.  For the original Columbia, see Historical Columbia.  

Places in North America
 Columbia River
 Upper Columbia United Tribes, certain Native American peoples near the 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, Alabama 
Columbia, Connecticut
Columbia, California
Columbia, Illinois
Columbia, Kentucky
Columbia, Louisiana
Columbia, Maryland
Columbia, Mississippi
Columbia, Missouri, home of the University of Missouri
Columbia, New Hampshire
Columbia, New Jersey
Columbia, New York
Columbia, North Carolina
Columbia, Pennsylvania
Columbia, Tennessee
Columbia, Virginia
Columbia, Texas

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, Florida
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
 CBS, Columbia Broadcasting System
 Columbia Graphophone Company
 Columbia Management Group
 Columbia Masterworks Records
 Columbia Music Entertainment
 Columbia Pictures
 Columbia Records
 Columbia Sussex
 Columbia Sportswear
 Columbia University Press, publisher of the Columbia Encyclopedia

Education
 Columbia University
 any of several Columbia Colleges
 Columbia Theological Seminary
 Columbia School of Broadcasting
 Columbia Union College
 University of the District of Columbia

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

Vehicles
 Space shuttle Columbia, which fell apart 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 fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
 HMS Columbia, the name of many ships of the Royal Navy
 Columbia, the type 2-4-2 railroad locomotive in the Whyte notation
 Columbia automobile, Hartford, Connecticut, United States (1893-1917)
 Lightship Columbia, WLV-604, the first lightship on the Pacific Coast of the United States

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
 Columbia, 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
 Columbia, a character in The Rocky Horror Picture Show
 "Columbia", a song by Paul van Dyk on Out There And Back
 Columbia Airlines, fictional airline from Airport 1975
 a Battlestar from both the original and the re-imagined versions of the Battlestar Galactica T.V show

Songs
"Columbia, Gem of the Ocean", a historical patriotic song still occasionally sung in the U.S.
Columbia (song), a song on the 1994 Oasis album Definitely Maybe
"Hail, Columbia", currently the official anthem of the Vice President and 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
 Columbia (supercontinent)

Related pages
 Columbiad, a type of cannon from the 19th century
 Columba (constellation)
 Niobium, an element formerly named Columbium
 Saint Columba
 Saint Columbanus
 The Columbian Orator