Formally, it's just the "District of Columbia". "Washington" is the city.

Turned out the United States also used to go by the name "Columbia", i.e. fem!Columbus. That's a fact which is true.

The thing with the name: If the "District of Columbia" became a state, it'd just be "Columbia", which would be confusing for everyone involved. We already have a Columbia IRL. "Georgia" is confusing enough.

"Well, they don't need to name it a long name," you might ask. "They can change what Columbia stands for."

And they did half of that, with a failed 2021 proposal to rename it "Washington, Douglass Commonwealth."

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hollyhoppet wrote on April 28, 2025 at 2:14 AM

cracking up at fem!Columbus

twovests OP wrote on April 28, 2025 at 3:17 AM

yayy :D

thank u

Dogmantra wrote on April 28, 2025 at 11:34 AM

The South American country is Colombia, with two Os, so I think it's probably fine to rename everything in the USA to Columbia.

twovests OP wrote on April 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM

I just moved from Columbia, Columbia to Columbia, Columbia! It was scary passing through Columbia, it's practically the Columbia of the Columbia region. (But not as bad as Columbia)