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A number of places, mostly in the Western Hemisphere, have been named after the Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus, who was the first European to make the New World widely known to Europeans. Countries
Colombia, [b] officially the Republic of Colombia, [c] is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuela to the east and northeast, Brazil to the southeast, Ecuador and Peru to the south and southwest, the Pacific Ocean to the west, and Panama to the northwest.
3 Colombia. 4 El Salvador. 5 Nicaragua. Toggle the table of contents. ... several locations all over the world have been named after the city. United States
The most accepted [citation needed] explanation is that the name for the, then Greek-Syrian (now Turkish), Hellenistic city of Antioch on the Orontes (Greek: Ἀντιόχεια Antiocheia, Arabic: Antākiyyah, today Antakya) was used since the region known as the Coffee Zone in Colombia, in which many towns and cities are named after cities in ...
There are a number of places named after famous people. ... Sarmiento – Many municipalities and cities after Domingo Faustino ... (1911–1933), Colombia–Peru War ...
Map of Colombia Bogotá, Capital of Colombia Medellín Cali Barranquilla Cartagena Cúcuta Santa Marta. This article lists cities and towns in Colombia by population, according to the 2005 census. A city is displayed in bold if it is a capital city of a department.
City formed by combining the towns of Christianburg, MacKenzie, and Wismar. 1970: Cancún: Quintana Roo: Mexico: Development of the area as a resort was started on April 20, 1970 1974: Inírida: Guainía: Colombia: 1989: Palmas: Tocantins: Brazil: Founded one year after the creation of the State of Tocantins.
The present city—named after Cartagena, Spain and by extension, the historic city of Carthage—was founded on 1 June 1533, making it one of South America’s oldest colonial cities; [8] but settlement by various indigenous people in the region around Cartagena Bay dates from 4000 BC.