A number of places, mostly in the Western Hemisphere, have been named after Christopher Columbus, the voyager who was the first European to make the New World widely known to Europeans.
- British Columbia Canadian Province.
- Colombia and the earlier Greater Colombia, country of South America.
- Colombo, former capital of Sir Lanka (altered by the Portuguese from similar-sounding native name)
- Colin, Panama, city
- Colón (Panamanian province)
- Columbia, Maryland, census-designated place
- Columbia, Missouri, city
- Columbia, South Carolina, city
- Colombo (Brazilian municipality and city in the state of Parana, Brazil)
- Columbus, Georgia, city
- Columbus, Indiana, city
- Columbus, Mississippi, city
- Columbus, Wisconsin, city
- Columbus, Ohio
- District of Columbia
- Colombian County, Ohio
- Colombian, Ohio, city
- Columbia County, Pennsylvania
- Columbus Circle, New York City
Famous quotes containing the words list of, list, places, named, christopher and/or columbus:
“Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis, which we ought to have tapped.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Weigh what loss your honor may sustain
If with too credent ear you list his songs,
Or lose your heart, or your chaste treasure open
To his unmastered importunity.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken—and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.... I wish I could care what you do or where you go, but I can’t. My dear, I don’t give a damn.”
—Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949)
“The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-Interest always runs a good race.”
—Gough Whitlam (b. 1916)
“Yet, when the walls of flesh grow weak,
In such an hour it may well be,
Through mist and darkness, light will break,
And each anointed sense will see.”
—Ernest Christopher Dowson (1867–1900)
“Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?”
—bell hooks (b. c. 1955)