City of Columbia
Columbia is the state capital and largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina. The city is the center of a metropolitan area of over 750,000 people.
Columbia ranked 34th in the Forbes 2009 “Best Places for Business and Careers” list. A 2010 study of the best places for small businesses by Portfolio.com/Bizjournals ranked Columbia 12th of the nation’s 100 largest metro areas. BusinessWeek ranked Columbia 14th in both its 2009 and 2010 “Forty Strongest U.S. Metro Economies” lists. CNNMoney.com named Columbia as one of America’s 25 best places to retire, and US News & World Report ranked the city sixth on its 2009 America’s Best Affordable Places to Retire list.





































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