Columbia South Carolina
About Columbia
Columbia is the state capital and largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina. The population was 129,272 according to the 2010 census.[3] The 2012 United States Census estimates put the city at 131,686.[4] Columbia is the county seat of Richland County, but a portion of the city extends into neighboring Lexington County. The city is the center of a metropolitan statistical area of 784,745, the second-largest within the state. The name "Columbia" was a poetic term for the Americas derived from Christopher Columbus.
