Columbia, South Carolina (usa)

Columbia, South Carolina

Columbia, South Carolina ranks 508th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Ehime Prefecture, A Coruña, and Trenton, New Jersey. Memorable people born in Columbia, South Carolina include Stanley Donen, Mary-Louise Parker, and James Mark Baldwin. Memorable people who died in Columbia, South Carolina include George Stinney, James F. Byrnes, and The Fabulous Moolah. Columbia, South Carolina has been the birth place of many actors and basketball players and the death place of many politicians and social activists. Columbia, South Carolina is located in United States.

Columbia is the capital city of the U.S. state of South Carolina. With a population of 136,632 at the 2020 census, it is the second-most populous city in South Carolina. The city serves as the county seat of Richland County, and a portion of the city extends into neighboring Lexington County. It is the center of the Columbia, SC Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had an estimated population of 858,302 in 2023, and is the 70th-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States. The name Columbia is a poetic term used for the United States, derived from the name of Christopher Columbus, who explored for the Spanish Crown. Columbia is often abbreviated as Cola, leading to its nickname as "Soda City". Read more on Wikipedia