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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.
In September 1791, using the toponym Columbia and the name of the president, the three commissioners agreed to name the federal district as the Territory of Columbia, and the federal city as the City of Washington.
Legislative. The Council of the District of Columbia is the legislative branch. Each of the city's eight wards elects a single member of the council and residents elect four at-large members to represent the District as a whole. The council chair is also elected at-large.
Washington, D.C. (also known as simply Washington or D.C., and officially as the District Of Columbia) is the capital of the United States. It is a federal district. The President of the United States, the United States Congress, the United States Supreme Court and many major national government offices are in the territory.
(The territory was later named the District of Columbia, within which the city of Washington was built.) The location for the new territory was centralized among the Eastern Seaboard states and was about 90 miles (145 km) inland from the Atlantic Ocean on land ceded by Maryland and Virginia.
The two federal and three local courts in Washington shared legal jurisdiction over District matters until the 1970s, when the courts were reorganized. The Superior Court of the District of Columbia, a single trial court, assumed the functions of the previous five courts.
The new federal territory was named District of Columbia to honour explorer Christopher Columbus, and the new federal city was named for George Washington.
The only public university in D.C. is the University of the District of Columbia, which serves mostly local students. D.C. has more think tanks than anywhere else in the U.S., most of which are located along Massachusetts Ave's "think tank row" in Dupont and Downtown.
The Council of the District of Columbia is the legislative branch of the local government of the District of Columbia, in the United States. Since 1973, the United States Congress has given certain powers to the council that would given state legislatures.
The District of Columbia was created in 1801 as the federal district of the United States, with territory previously held by the states of Maryland and Virginia ceded to the federal government of the United States for the purpose of creating its federal district, which would encompass the new national capital of the United States, the City of ...