The name was chosen by Queen Victoria when it was a British colony in 1858, in reference to the area drained by the Columbia river.
Yes, the compound noun 'Columbia River' is a proper noun, the name of a specific river.A proper noun is the name or title of a specific person, place or thing. A proper noun is always capitalized.All of the words of a compound proper noun are capitalized.
The English name Georgia gets its name from the Greek Georgios. It means 'rustic', 'farmer'.
Indian ocean gets its name from India, a country of Asia.
ColumbianPeople that live in Columbia are Columbians.
British Columbia
Another name for the Columbia plateau is the Columbia basin
Columbia is in South America
British Columbia
Columbia Top's birth name is Yutaka Shimomura.
Most of British Columbia's lumber gets sold to the US construction industry.
it gets 3 electoral votes
Canada gets peaches from Ontario and British Columbia
queen victoria named it British Columbia
It gets hot and cold
The president of the Republic of Columbia is Álvaro Uribe Vélez.
It was called Columbia after Jules vernes novel.