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District of Columbia (national district) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 38 50 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 38.8333 decimal degrees |
| Long: 077 00 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -77.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Federal district coextensive with city of Washington; US was first nation to plan a capital exclusively for seat of government; originally was a 10-mile square in Maryland & Virginia, on both banks of Potomac river; Virginia reclaimed its land in 1846. |
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| District of Columbia (preferred,C,V,O,English)
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| DC (C,V,display,USPS)
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| Washington, D.C. (C,U,English)
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| Washington, D.C. (German)
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| D.C. Washington (C,U)
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| 워싱턴 DC (C,U,Korean)
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| ワシントン D.C. (C,U,Japanese)
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| 워싱턴 D.C. (C,U,Korean)
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| District de Columbia (C,U,French)
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| Distrito de Columbia (C,U,Spanish)
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| Kolumbijos apygarda (C,U,Lithuanian)
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| Washington D.C. (C,U,Spanish)
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| Washington DC (C,U)
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| ワシントン・コロンビア特別区 (C,U,Japanese)
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| Округ Колумбия (C,U,Russian)
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| 컬럼비아 특별구 (C,U,Korean)
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| national district (preferred, C) |
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authorized by US Constitution, site selected by George Washington in 1791; has had current boundaries since 1846 |
| first level subdivision (C) |
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