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As of 2024, the Washington metropolitan area is home to the headquarters of 20 Fortune 500 companies across a number of different industries. The DC area is also home to many satellite offices for major companies, and serves as the US or North American headquarters for many foreign companies, such as Volkwagen, Rolls-Royce, Airbus, Nestlé, and Lidl.
The United States District of Columbia (Washington, D.C.) is the primary city of two statistical areas that have been delineated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). On July 21, 2023, the OMB delineated the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV MSA and the more extensive Washington-Baltimore-Arlington, DC-MD-VA-WV-PA CSA. [1]
The Washington metropolitan area, which includes the district and surrounding suburbs, is the sixth-largest metropolitan area in the U.S., with an estimated six million residents as of 2016. [142] When the Washington area is included with Baltimore and its suburbs, it forms the vast Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area.
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 comprising Washington, D.C., the federal capital of the United States, and its surroundings.
The metro DC area is the second-most popular destination for African immigrants, after New York City. More than 192,000 African-born people live in DC and nearby suburbs as of 2019, just shy of the 194,000 African-born in New York. [37] This includes Nigerians with 19,600 residents and Ghanaians with 18,400. [38]
English: Based upon the US counties map but cut down to show only the Washington, DC metropolitan area and then clipped to a rectangular region Source File:Usa_counties_large.svg
D.C. At Large Congressional District Election (2022) [15] Party Candidate Votes % Democratic: Eleanor Holmes Norton (incumbent) 174,238 : 86.54 : Republican: Nelson Rimensnyder 11,701 5.81 DC Statehood Green: Natale Stracuzzi 9,867 4.90 Libertarian: Bruce Major 4,003 1.99 Write-in: 1,521 0.76 Total valid votes 201,330 97.84 Rejected ballots ...
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