Columbia, Missouri (usa)

Columbia, Missouri

Columbia, Missouri ranks 1,064th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Camagüey, Southwark, and Siegen. Memorable people born in Columbia, Missouri include Norbert Wiener, Henry VI, Count of Luxembourg, and Stan Kroenke. Memorable people who died in Columbia, Missouri include Steven R. Nagel, and Jane Froman. Columbia, Missouri has been the birth place of many actors, and politicians and the death place of many astronauts, and actors. Columbia, Missouri is located in United States.

Columbia is a city in Missouri, United States. It was founded in 1821 as the county seat of Boone County and had a population of 126,254 as recorded in the 2020 census, making it the fourth-most populous city in Missouri. Columbia is a Midwestern college town, home to the University of Missouri, a major research institution also known as MU or Mizzou. In addition to the university and surrounding Downtown Columbia are Stephens College and Columbia College, giving the city its educational focus and nearly 40,000 college students. It is the principal city of the Columbia metropolitan area, population 215,811, and the central city of the nine-county Columbia–Jefferson City–Moberly combined statistical area with 415,747 residents. The city is the fastest growing municipality in Missouri, with a growth of almost 40% since 2000, and a population estimated at 130,000 in 2024. Columbia is among the most-educated cities in the United States with about half of citizens being college graduates and about a quarter holding advance degrees. Read more on Wikipedia