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The Washington metropolitan area, also referred to as the D.C. area, Greater Washington, the National Capital Region, or locally as the DMV (short for District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia), is the metropolitan area centered around Washington, D.C., the federal capital of the United States.
Neighborhoods in Washington, D.C. The eight wards of Washington, D.C. as of 2023. Neighborhoods in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, are distinguished by their history, culture, architecture, demographics, and geography. The names of 131 neighborhoods are unofficially defined by the D.C. Office of Planning. [1]
Multiple cities in the D.C., Maryland & Virginia area have been named among the best places to live in the United States in a new ranking. DMV cities among Top 100 Best Places to Live in US Skip ...
The area is designated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as the Washington–Baltimore–Arlington, DC–MD–VA–WV–PA Combined Statistical Area. It is composed primarily of two major metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs), the Washington–Arlington–Alexandria, DC–VA–MD–WV MSA and the Baltimore–Columbia–Towson ...
(The geographic center was located near the onetime marshy area of the present-day intersection of 17th Street, NW and Constitution Ave. ) As a result, the quadrants are of greatly varying size. Northwest is quite large, encompassing over a third of the city's geographical area, while Southwest is little more than a few neighborhoods, large ...
A concentration of Salvadorans have settled in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood. [30] Wards 1 and 4 have the highest percentages of immigrants in the city, and the Brightwood neighborhood in Ward 4 has the highest percentage of immigrants of any neighborhood in D.C., [31] with only 46 percent of residents being born in the United States.
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