History of Columbus, Georgia
Columbus is a city in Muscogee County, Georgia, United States. It is the primary city of the Columbus, Georgia Metropolitan Statistical Area, an MSA which encompasses all of Columbus, Georgia, Chattahoochee County, Harris County, Marion County, and Muscogee County, Georgia, and Russell County, Alabama, and which, along with the Auburn Metropolitan Area, Alabama MSA and the Tuskegee, Alabama Micropolitan Statistical Area, comprise the greater Columbus-Auburn-Opelika, Georgia-Alabama Combined Statistical Area. As of the 2000 census, the entire city-county population was 186,291 and 276,000 in the Georgia-Alabama metro area. The city is the county seat of Muscogee County, Georgia with which it is a consolidated city-county.
Because of the consolidation, Columbus is listed with the same population and other demographic data as the entire county. Fort Benning takes up most of the rest of the county.
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