Colombia
kuh-LUM-bee-uh/kəˈlʌm.bi.ə/
- 1A country in northwestern South America, officially the Republic of Colombia, with its capital at Bogotá.
Colombia shares land borders with Venezuela, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, and Panama.
Tourists often head straight for Colombia's Caribbean coast around Cartagena.
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Origin
Borrowed from Spanish Colombia, from Italian Colombo (Cristoforo Colombo), the Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus (1451–1506). It is formed from Colombo plus the suffix -ia, and is a doublet of Columbia.