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Columbus is a city in and the county seat of Lowndes County, on the eastern affix of Mississippi, United States, located primarily east, but plus north and northeast of the Tombigbee River, which is also share of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. It is nearly 146 miles (235 km) northeast of Jackson, 92 miles (148 km) north of Meridian, 63 miles (101 km) south of Tupelo, 60 miles (97 km) northwest of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and 120 miles (193 km) west of Birmingham, Alabama.

The population was 25,944 at the 2000 census and 23,640 in 2010. The population in 2019 was estimated to be 23,573. Columbus is the principal city of the Columbus Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is ration of the larger Columbus-West Point Combined Statistical Area. Columbus is also allocation of the area of Mississippi called The Golden Triangle, consisting of Columbus, West Point and Starkville, in the counties of Lowndes, Clay and Oktibbeha.

The first tape of the site of Columbus in Western archives is found in the annals of the trailblazer Hernando de Soto, who is reputed to have crossed the reachable Tombigbee River on his search for El Dorado. However, the site does not enter the main continuity of United States history until December 1810, when John Pitchlynn, the U.S. Indian agent and interpreter for the Choctaw Nation, moved to Plymouth Bluff, where he built a home, established a farm, and transacted Choctaw Agency business.