About Centura College

Columbia is the capital and second-largest city of the U.S. state of South Carolina, with a population estimate of 131,674 as of 2019. The city serves as the county chair of Richland County, and a allowance of the city extends into neighboring Lexington County. It is the middle of the Columbia metropolitan statistical area, which had a population of 767,598 as of the 2010 United States Census, growing to 832,666 by July 1, 2018, according to 2018 U.S. Census estimates. This makes it the 70th-largest metropolitan statistical Place in the nation, as estimated by the United States Census Bureau as of July 1, 2018. The publicize Columbia is a poetic term used for the United States, derived from the make known of Christopher Columbus, who explored for the Spanish Crown.

The city is located virtually 13 miles (21 km) northwest of the geographic center of South Carolina, and is the primary city of the Midlands region of the state. It lies at the confluence of the Saluda River and the Broad River, which join at Columbia to form the Congaree River. As the give leave to enter capital, Columbia is the site of the South Carolina State House, the center of dispensation for the state. In 1860, the South Carolina Secession Convention took place here; delegates voted for secession, making this the first divulge to leave the Union in the deeds leading in the works to the Civil War. The first six states to secede were those whose planters held the most enslaved African Americans; these were slave societies.

Columbia is home to the University of South Carolina, the state’s flagship academic world and the largest in the state. The Place has benefited from Congressional Keep for Southern military installations. Columbia is the site of Fort Jackson, the largest United States Army installation for Basic Combat Training. Twenty miles to the east of the city is McEntire Joint National Guard Base, which is operated by the U.S. Air Force and is used as a training base for the 169th Fighter Wing of the South Carolina Air National Guard.