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2. List of tallest buildings in Washington, D.C. - Wikipedia

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   Tallest residential building in Washington, D.C. Tallest completed in the city in the 2000s. [9] 9 Thomas Jefferson Building: 195 (59) 7 1897 [39] Originally named the Library of Congress building 10 Renaissance Washington DC Hotel 187 (57) 15 1986 [40] [41] 1090 Vermont Avenue: 187 (57) 12 1979 Tallest building constructed in the city in the ...

3. Washington, D.C. - Wikipedia

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   Website. dc.gov. Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States. The city is on the Potomac River, across from Virginia, and shares land borders with Maryland to its north and east. It was named for George Washington, the first president ...

4. Architecture of Washington, D.C. - Wikipedia

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   18th century. Washington, D.C. is a planned city. It was chosen by George Washington as the site for the capital city for the new nation. In 1791, President Washington chose Frenchman Pierre L'Enfant to design the plan for the new city. [4] L'Enfant created the L'Enfant Plan to map out the city's streets.

5. International Spy Museum - Wikipedia

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   International Spy Museum. The International Spy Museum is an independent non-profit history museum which documents the tradecraft, history, and contemporary role of espionage. It holds the largest collection [2] of international espionage artifacts on public display. The museum opened in 2002 in the Penn Quarter neighborhood of Washington, D.C ...

6. Demographics of Washington, D.C. - Wikipedia

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   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. [38] This includes Nigerians with 19,600 residents and Ghanaians with 18,400. [39]

7. Washington metropolitan area - Wikipedia

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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. The metropolitan area includes all of ...