North America

Canada

• British Columbia, a province of Canada
• Columbia District, a Hudson's Bay Company fur trading district in the Pacific Northwest
• Columbia, British Columbia, a former city in Canada
• Columbia (electoral district), formerly in British Columbia, Canada, 1903–1928
• Columbia Street, New Westminster, the main downtown street of that city, in British Columbia, Canada

United States

• District of Columbia, the United States' capital district
• Columbia, Alabama, a town
• Columbia, Arizona, a populated place
• Columbia, California, a census-designated place and former boomtown
• Columbia, San Diego, California, a neighborhood
• Columbia, Connecticut, a town
• Columbia, Illinois, a city
• Columbia, Fayette County, Indiana, an unincorporated town
• Columbia, Iowa, an unincorporated community
• Columbia, Kentucky, a city
• Columbia, Louisiana, a town
• Columbia, Maine, a town
• Columbia, Maryland, a planned community
• Columbia, Michigan, a village
• Columbia, Mississippi, a city
• Columbia, Missouri, a city
  • Columbia metropolitan area (Missouri)
• Columbia, New Hampshire, a town
• Columbia, New Jersey, a census-designated place
• Columbia, New York, a town
• Columbia, North Carolina, a town
• Columbia, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, an unincorporated community
• Columbia, Williams County, Ohio, an unincorporated community
• Columbia, Pennsylvania, a borough
• Columbia, South Carolina, the capital of South Carolina
  • Columbia metropolitan area (South Carolina)
• Columbia, South Dakota, a city
• Columbia, Tennessee, a city
• Columbia, Virginia, a town
• Columbia (Richmond, Virginia), a historic home
• Camp Columbia (Hanford), Washington state, a prison camp during and after World War II
• Columbia, West Virginia
• Columbia, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
• Columbia, former name of Romney, Indiana, an unincorporated community
• Columbia, former name of Etna, New York, an unincorporated community
• Columbia, former name of West Columbia, Texas, a city

Elsewhere

• Columbia, Queensland, a locality in Australia
• Camp Columbia (Wacol), Queensland, Australia, during World War II
• Columbia, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom, a village subdivision of the town of Washington
• Columbia (supercontinent), a prehistoric supercontinent
• 327 Columbia, an asteroid

Fictional elements

• Columbia (BioShock), a city in the video game BioShock Infinite
• Columbia, a character in the movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Columbia Airlines from the movie Airport 1975

Music

• Columbia, a style of Cuban rumba
• Columbia: Live at Missouri University, a 1993 live album by American power pop group Big Star
• "Columbia" (Oasis song), a song on the 1994 album Definitely Maybe
• "Columbia", a song on the 2000 Paul van Dyk album Out There and Back
• "Columbia", a song on the 2005 Eric Johnson album Bloom

Publications

• Columbia Encyclopedia, one-volume encyclopedia published by Columbia University Press
• Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, annual literary journal published by Columbia University
• Columbia Magazine, an alumni magazine published by Columbia University
• Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History, quarterly magazine published by the Washington State Historical Society
• Columbia, a magazine published by the Knights of Columbus
• Columbia Magazine, an online magazine published in Columbia, Kentucky

Arts and media companies

• Columbia Amusement Company, an American burlesque chain that operated from 1902 to 1927
• Columbia Artists Management
• Columbia Broadcasting System, original name of American broadcast network, CBS; initially Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System (1927–1928), then Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. (1928–1974), now CBS Inc. (1974–present)
• Columbia Comics
• Columbia Games
• Columbia Graphophone Company, a British record company and label from 1922 to 1973
• Columbia House, an American mail-order media company
• Nippon Columbia, formerly Columbia Music Entertainment, a Japanese record company
• Columbia Pictures, an American cinematic film studio founded in 1924, owned by Sony Corporation since 1989.
• Columbia Records, an American record label founded in 1888, owned since 1988 by Sony Music Entertainment
• Columbia University Press, affiliated with Columbia University and publisher of Columbia Encyclopedia

Transportation companies

• Columbia Aircraft, American manufacturer active 1995-2007, taken over by Cessna
• Columbia Aircraft Corporation, American manufacturer active 1927-1947, originally Columbia Air Liners Inc.
• Columbia Bicycles of Hartford, Connecticut
  • Columbia (automobile brand) (1899–1913), originally expanded from the bicycle line
• Columbia Helicopters, based in Aurora, Oregon
• Columbia Motors of Detroit, Michigan (1917–1924)
• Columbia Railway, a historic Washington, D.C. streetcar company
• Columbia Transit (COMO Connect), a bus company serving Columbia, Missouri
• Columbia Transportation, the university bus system of Columbia University

Other companies

• Columbia Brewery in Canada
• Columbia Data Products
• Columbia Forest Products
• Columbia Gas Transmission, a gas pipeline between the U.S. Gulf Coast and New York
• Columbia Industries
• Columbia Insurance Group
• Columbia Management Group
• Columbia Mining Company, amalgamated in 2001 with Teck Resources as Teck-Cominco
• Columbia Power Corporation, Canada
• Columbia Restaurant, Florida
• Columbia Sportswear, formerly the Columbia Hat Company

School districts

• Columbia Elementary School District, Redding, California
• Columbia School District (Mississippi)
• Columbia Public Schools, Columbia, Missouri

Naval vessels

• USS Columbia, any of several ships of the US Navy
• Columbia-class cruiser, a group of two protected cruisers used by the United States Navy, 1890–91
• CSS Columbia, a Confederate (and later U.S. Navy) ironclad ram during the Civil War
• HMCS Columbia, any of several commissioned vessels of the Royal Canadian Navy

America's Cup yachts

• Columbia (1871 yacht)
• Columbia (1899 yacht)
• Columbia (1958 yacht)

Other ships

• Columbia (Arrow Lakes sternwheeler)
• Columbia (barque), in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company on the Columbia River and along the Pacific Northwest Coast
• Columbia (collapsed paddle steamer), a paddle steamer excursion boat which sank on the Illinois River in July 1918
• Columbia (sidewheeler 1850), a steamboat in Oregon
• MV Columbia, a large passenger and automobile ferry in the Alaska Marine Highway System fleet
• SS Columbia, a historic excursion steamer docked in Ecorse, Michigan, United States
• SS Columbia (1880), a coastal passenger liner which made the first commercial use of Edison's light bulb
• SS Columbia (1889), an ocean liner, later renamed Rapido, a cruiser for the Spanish Navy
• United States lightship Columbia (WLV-604), the first lightship on the Pacific Coast of the United States, docked in Astoria, Oregon
• Columbia Rediviva, commonly known as the Columbia, a maritime fur trade vessel