proper noun/koˈlombja/
Colombia (a country in South America; capital: Bogotá)
“Los detenidos eran “de México, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Colombia y Honduras”, de acuerdo con la publicación de HSI Tampa.”
Related: colombianidad, colombianismo, colombianista, Gran Colombia
From Italian Colombo (“Cristoforo Colombo”) + -ia. Named after Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus (1451–1506) in 1819, from Francisco de Miranda's use of the term to designate Spanish America in the 1790s.