# Colombia

Pronunciation: say "kuh-LUM-bee-uh" /kəˈlʌm.bi.ə/

## Proper noun

1. A country in northwestern South America, officially the Republic of Colombia, with its capital at Bogotá.
   - Simple: A country in the northwest part of South America. Its capital city is Bogotá.
   - _Colombia shares land borders with Venezuela, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, and Panama._
   - _Tourists often head straight for Colombia's Caribbean coast around Cartagena._

## 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.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/colombia (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).