Columbia, Maryland

United States

Columbia, Maryland shares 70 connections with 8962 other places across 20 topics, reflecting its origins as a planned community built around ideals of integration and self-governance. Government and civic organization form the largest cluster of its connections, while music, landmarks, and education each carry a strong thread. Baltimore, Maryland and Chicago, Illinois appear among its most-shared co-connected places. Wilde Lake High School, which opened in 1971 as a "model school for the nation," anchors the education strand, and an ecumenical approach to religious life was built into Columbia's original design.