Columbia is a planned community consisting of 10 self-contained villages. There are 105 000 people that live in Columbia and it is a part of the Baltimore Metropolitan Area, which has about 2.9 million people.  These are the villages that Columbia comprises of: Wilde Lake – (Est. 1967) Bryant Woods, Faulkner Ridge, Running Brook Harper's Choice – (Est. 1968) Longfellow, Swansfield, Hobbit's Glen Oakland Mills – (Est. 1969) Thunder Hill, Talbott Springs, Stevens Forest Long Reach – (Est. 1971) Phelps Luck, Jeffers Hill, Locust Park, Kendall Ridge Owen Brown – (Est. 1972) Dasher Green, Elkhorn, Hopewell Town Center – (Est. 1974) Vantage Point, Banneker, Amesbury, Creighton's Run, and Warfield Triangle Hickory Ridge – (Est. 1974) Clemens Crossing, Hawthorn, Clary's Forest Kings Contrivance – (Est. 1977) Macgill's Common, Huntington, Dickinson Dorsey's Search – (Est. 1980) Dorsey Hall, Fairway Hills River Hill – (Est. 1990) Pheasant Rid...