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Map of Golden Triangle Tiny Jewel Box storefront on Connecticut Avenue. The Golden Triangle is a neighborhood and business improvement district (BID) in Washington, D.C. Covering 43 blocks, it encompasses the western part of Washington's central business district, running from the front yard of the White House's north side to Dupont Circle and from 16th Street NW to 21st Street NW and ...
Downtown is the central business district of Washington, D.C., located in Northwest D.C. It is the third largest central business district in the United States. The "Traditional Downtown" has been defined as an area roughly between Union Station in the east and 16th Street NW in the west, and between the National Mall on the south and Massachusetts Avenue on the north, including Penn Quarter.
Neighborhoods can be defined by the boundaries of wards, historic districts, Advisory Neighborhood Commissions, civic associations, and business improvement districts (BIDs); these boundaries will overlap. The eight wards each elect a member to the Council of the District of Columbia and are redistricted every ten years.
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.
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.
name = the District of Columbia Name used in the default map caption; image = USA District of Columbia location map.svg The default map image, without "Image:" or "File:" top = 39 Latitude at top edge of map, in decimal degrees; bottom = 38.79 Latitude at bottom edge of map, in decimal degrees; left = -77.13 Longitude at left edge of map, in ...
Correct to place Benning Road station inside DC box: 20:32, 19 June 2012: 760 × 630 (65 KB) Rfc1394: Correct label "district of columbia" to be text instead of flowroot (technical problem) 20:31, 19 June 2012: 760 × 630 (65 KB) Rfc1394: Add gray square for District of Columbia: 20:16, 19 June 2012: 760 × 630 (63 KB) Rfc1394
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