What do you consider Columbus Ohio?

When you hear Columbus Ohio do you think of the City of Columbus? The "Greater Columbus Area?" Or something else?

Geographically what is Columbus Ohio to you?

Is Pataskala Columbus? Columbus - Top Ten US Haunted Houses

Is Polaris Columbus?* Polaris Mitchell’s Martini’s to be Marcella’s

Is a Southern Ohio community Columbus? I think the owner of the home knows it's not Columbus or Central Ohio but is grasping at straws to find a buyer for her home. Where the heck is _____ County, Ohio?
and thinks Central Ohio real estate agents will drive a buyer two and a half hours to show her home because everyone in Columbus wants to move to the country...

Did Forbes.com and Moody's Economy.com just consider housing in the City of Columbus? Columbus Housing Market is Stable or is this the "Greater Columbus" area?

Is Bexley and other suburbs inside 270 part of Columbus? “Obscure” Ohio a Columbus Suburb

Are the NE suburbs outside 270 Columbus? Columbus N.E. a Mansion Fit for a King

Did Forbes.com just consider the City of Columbus when they named Columbus a good place for singles? Or were they also considering Dublin, Grandview, Upper Arlington, Powell, Lewis Center, Westerville etc. considererd? Columbus 19th Best

Columbus Dispatch “beware of sliding prices”? Yes they were talking Central Ohio and not strictly Columbus since the Dispatch was calling Upper Arlington and Powell neighborhoods, along with Clintonville.

Columbus Makes National Top Ten List!

“Columbus Home to 1.72 million people”

Are Delaware, Fayette, Madison, Morrow and Union counties Columbus? How about pieces of Licking, Pickaway, Fairfield, Champaign, Clark, Knox, Logan and Marion counties, are they Columbus Ohio? Those are the counties that the Columbus Board of Realtors covers. Whenever they issue a report about Columbus sales it says: