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Colma is a small incorporated town in San Mateo County, California, near the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area. The population was 1,792 at the 2010 census. The town was founded as a necropolis in 1924. With most of Colma's land dedicated to cemeteries, the population of the dead outnumbers the living by over a 1000 to one. This has led to Colma's being called, "the City of the Silent", and has given rise to a humorous motto, now recorded on the city's website: "It's great to be alive in Colma."〔 ==Etymology== The origin of the name Colma is widely disputed. Before 1872, Colma was designated as "Station" or "School House Station", the name of its post office in 1869. Currently, there seem to be five possible sources of the town's being called Colma: *William T. Coleman, allegedly known as the "Lion of the Vigilantes" and a significant landowner in the area *Thomas Coleman, a registered voter in the district in the 1870s *A transfer name from Europe: Switzerland has a Colma; Alsace has a Colmar *A re-spelling of an ancient Uralic word meaning death *A literary origin from MacPherson's ''Songs of Selma'', in one of the Ossianic fragments *Native American languages: * *"Kolma" means "moon" in one dialect of Costanoan, or Ohlone, who lived in the area; however, this name does not appear on any design ("diseño") of Indian rancherias at the time * *An undisclosed Native American word meaning "springs" 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Colma, California」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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