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