About Columbia College South Carolina

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 portion of the city extends into against Lexington County. It is the center 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 pronounce of Christopher Columbus, who explored for the Spanish Crown.

The city is located roughly 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 merge at Columbia to form the Congaree River. As the declare capital, Columbia is the site of the South Carolina State House, the middle of government for the state. In 1860, the South Carolina Secession Convention took place here; delegates voted for secession, making this the first state to depart the Union in the comings and goings leading taking place 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 area has benefited from Congressional preserve 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.