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Columbus

Also known as Columbus, Georgia, Columbus, GA

consolidated city-county in Muscogee County, Georgia, United States

AI overview

Columbus is a city in Georgia that combines city and county government into one unified system, located in Muscogee County. As a consolidated government serving both the city and its surrounding county area, it represents an alternative approach to how local governance is typically organized in the United States.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: big city
Named after: Christopher Columbus
Official name: Columbus
Country: United States
Located in: Muscogee County
Population: 206922
Area: 572
Elevation: 243
Time zone: Eastern Time Zone
Body of water: Chattahoochee River
Capital of: Muscogee County
Official website: www.columbusga.org
Image: Downtown Columbus, Georgia skyline.jpg
Households: 73648
Dialing code: 762

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category for people born here: Category:Births in Columbus, Georgia
twinned administrative body: Taichung
Commons category: Columbus, Georgia
topic's main category: Category:Columbus, Georgia
category for people who died here: Q17020678
postal code: 31997
inception: 1828-00-00
category of associated people: Category:People from Columbus, Georgia
native label: Columbus
P8168: Magdalena Maleeva
different from: Columbus
per capita income: 26709

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Encyclopedic overview

Columbus is a consolidated city-county located on the west-central border of the U.S. state of Georgia. Columbus lies on the Chattahoochee River directly across from Phenix City, Alabama. It is the county seat of Muscogee County, with which it officially merged in 1970; the original merger excluded Bibb City, which joined in 2000 after dissolving its own city charter.

Columbus is the second most populous city in Georgia (after Atlanta), and fields the state's fourth-largest metropolitan area. At the 2020 U.S. census, Columbus had a population of 206,922, with 328,883 in the Columbus metropolitan statistical area. The metro area joins the nearby Alabama cities of Auburn and Opelika to form the Columbus–Auburn–Opelika combined statistical area, which had a population of 563,967 in 2020.

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