What County Is Columbia, South Carolina In?

Columbia is in Kershaw County, Lexington County, and Richland County. Check a specific address near a county line.

Columbia city: generalized boundary, north up. Open street map ↗

Official code: 4516000
Representative coordinates: 34.040519, -80.906099
Land area: 360.928 km²
Water area: 7.71 km²
State: South Carolina

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County boundaries in Columbia

This place crosses county lines. A city name alone cannot identify the county for every address. Check a point on the county map.

Coordinates of Columbia

34.040519, -80.906099 is the Census representative point, not a street address. Convert these coordinates or prepare a map link.

Elevation in Columbia

86 m · 282 ft. GNIS archived height at its named reference point (34.037711, -80.9035481), which may differ from the Census point. Terrain height varies across the place; this is not a city-wide or surveyed elevation. Request height at a different point.

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Time zones in Columbia

The representative point uses America/New_York.

Time zone	Local time and UTC offset	Next clock change
America/New_York	UTC-05:00 in January; UTC-04:00 in July. Enable JavaScript for the live clock.	Enable JavaScript for upcoming changes.

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Census ZIP areas

29044 · 29045 · 29061 · 29063 · 29169 · 29201 · 29203 · 29204 · 29205 · 29206 · 29207 · 29208 · 29209 · 29210 · 29212 · 29223 · 29225 · 29229

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Areas sharing the mapped boundary

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