What is the word origin of the word Colombia?

Answer 1

The word "Colombia" comes from the surname of Cristoforo Colombo, the famous Italian explorer, navigator and colonizer, who was famously known in English-speaking world as Christopher Columbus. People are usually confused by this word and its sister, "Columbia", which were also deprived from said explorer's name, but English one, Columbus. Columbia itself is the name of the continent America and the United States, also the name of many cities in North America. His Spanish name, Cristóbal Colón, is also the namesake for many cities, towns, counties, streets, and plazas (called Plaza Colón or Plaza de Colón) in Spain and Latin America (where Spanish and its localized versions became the first language of those countries).