Washington Information

Washington, D.C.,
formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the
capital of the United States, founded on July
16, 1790. The City of Washington was
originally a separate municipality within the Territory of Columbia
until an act of Congress in 1871 effectively merged
the City and the Territory into a single
entity called the District of Columbia. It is for this reason that the city, while legally named the District of
Columbia, is known as Washington,
D.C.
The city is located on the north bank
of the Potomac River and is bordered by the
states of Virginia to the southwest and
Maryland to the other sides. The District has a resident population of 591,833; because of commuters from the
surrounding suburbs, its population
rises to over one million during the workweek. The Washington Metropolitan Area, of which the District is
a part, has a population of 5.3
million, the ninth-largest metropolitan area in the country.
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