Columbia vs Salem

Columbia

name
  • A city, the county seat of Boone County, Missouri. 

  • A town in Coos County, New Hampshire. 

  • A river in British Columbia, Canada and in Washington and Oregon, United States, flowing from the Canadian Rockies to the Pacific Ocean. 

  • America; the United States; an appellation given in honor of Christopher Columbus. 

  • The capital city of South Carolina, and the county seat of Richland County. 

  • An unincorporated community in Marion County, Iowa. 

  • A supercontinent thought to have existed in the Paleoproterozoic. 

  • A city in Brown County, South Dakota. 

  • A census-designated place in Warren County, New Jersey. 

  • An unincorporated community in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. 

  • A census-designated place and planned community in Howard County, Maryland. 

  • A city in Monroe County, Illinois. 

  • A rural locality in northeast Queensland, Australia. 

  • A borough of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. 

  • An unincorporated community in Williams County, Ohio. 

  • An unincorporated community in Fluvanna County, Virginia. 

  • An unincorporated community in Fayette County, Indiana. 

  • A town in Herkimer County, New York. 

  • A neighborhood of San Diego, California. 

  • Columbia University. 

  • A town in Houston County, Alabama. 

  • Space Shuttle Columbia, named after the Columbia Rediviva ship. 

  • A town, the county seat of Tyrrell County, North Carolina. 

  • A city, the county seat of Marion County, Mississippi, named for the city in South Carolina. 

  • An unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia. 

  • A city, the county seat of Maury County, Tennessee. 

  • A town in Tolland County, Connecticut. 

  • A town in Washington County, Maine. 

  • A city, the county seat of Adair County, Kentucky. 

  • An unincorporated community in Clark County, Wisconsin. 

  • A census-designated place in Tuolumne County, California. 

  • A town, the parish seat of Caldwell Parish, Louisiana. 

Salem

name
  • A city, the county seat of Dent County, Missouri. 

  • The capital city of Oregon, United States and the county seat of Marion County. 

  • A municipality of Stockholm, Sweden. 

  • A town in Montserrat, which was evacuated and later resettled. 

  • A city, the county seat of Marion County, Illinois. 

  • A census-designated place in Saline County, Arkansas. 

  • A city, the county seat of Salem County, New Jersey. 

  • A city, the county seat of Fulton County, Arkansas. 

  • An unincorporated community in Pike County, Arkansas. 

  • A town and a district in Tamil Nadu, India. 

  • A city, the county seat of Washington County, Indiana. 

  • The biblical place ruled by Melchizedek; mostly identified with Jerusalem. 

  • A city in Massachusetts, United States and one of the two county seats of Essex County; the site of infamous witch-hunts, trials and executions in 1692. 

  • A city, the county seat of McCook County, South Dakota. 

  • An independent city, the county seat of Roanoke County, Virginia. 

  • A female given name from Hebrew. 

  • An unincorporated community and former town, now in Salem Lakes, Kenosha County, Wisconsin. 

How often have the words Columbia and Salem occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )