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Maryland is divided into eight congressional districts, each represented by a member of the United States House of Representatives. After the 2020 census , the number of Maryland 's seats remained unchanged, giving evidence of stable population growth relative to the United States at large.
The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code, which is used by the United States government to uniquely identify states and counties, is provided with each entry. [6] Maryland's code is 24, which when combined with any county code would be written as 24XXX. [7] [8] The FIPS code for each county links to census data for that county.
Maryland's 8th congressional district is concentrated almost entirely in Montgomery County, with a small portion in Prince George's County. [3] Adjacent to Washington, D.C. , the 8th district takes in many of the city’s wealthiest inner-ring suburbs, including Bethesda , Chevy Chase , and Potomac .
ISO 3166-2:US is the entry for the United States in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.
The postal abbreviation is the same as the ISO 3166-2 subdivision code for each of the fifty states. These codes do not overlap with the 13 Canadian subnational postal abbreviations. The code for Nebraska changed from NB to NE in November 1969 to avoid a conflict with New Brunswick. [4]
Maryland's Legislative District 47 is the last of 47 districts in the state for the Maryland General Assembly. It covers part of Prince George's County . The district is divided into two sub-districts for the Maryland House of Delegates : District 47A and District 47B .
Political representation [ edit ] The district is represented for the 2023–2027 legislative term in the State Senate by Clarence K. Lam (D) and in the House of Delegates by Jessica M. Feldmark (D, District 12A), Terri L. Hill (D, District 12A), and Gary Simmons (D, District 12B).
Map of the United States with Maryland highlighted. Maryland is a state located in the Southern United States. [1] As of the 2020 United States census, Maryland is the 18th-most populous state with 6,177,224 inhabitants and the ninth-smallest by land area, spanning 9,707.24 square miles (25,141.6 km 2) of land. [2]