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Washington
Washington
,
in full Washington, D.C. (“District of Columbia”) is the city and
capital of the United States of America. The city is coextensive with the District of
Columbia and is located at the head of navigation of the Potomac River, which
separates it from Virginia to the southwest.
Washington is one of the few capital cities of the world founded expressly as a
seat of government and as a centre for international representation. The expansive
designs for the city were to symbolize the ideals of the freedom so recently achieved
yet still so tenuously held by the citizenry of the nation. It was to be a vital city, the
proper seat for the federal government.
The modern city also holds the nation's most sacred monuments and the most
meaningful artifacts of its history, the embassies of foreign nations, and an
impressive collection of the national art treasures. Nearly every significant national
organization has its headquarters or a major branch in the District, often for the
purpose of lobbying in Congress or within federal agencies. The city was meant to
be, and has remained, the focal point of the nation for sightseers and for seekers after
the spirit of the American past and present.
For many reasons, Washington has had a development that is unique among
the world's major cities. An inherent tendency to distinguish between the District of
Columbia as the capital, with its paraphernalia of federal facilities, and Washington
as the city, with its complexity of social, economic, and political problems, has
produced a metropolis as notorious for its ugliness and crime as it is famous for its
diverse and truly awesome beauties. The city is located near the end of the sprawling
urbanized agglomeration that spreads southward from Boston along the Eastern
Seaboard, and it has most of the same problems that face other great core
metropolises of the region—Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, and Baltimore—
and of the nation as a whole.
Another set of disparities exists between the city of Washington and the
Washington metropolitan area. More than one-fourth of the people over 26 years of
age in the metropolitan area hold college degrees, the highest percentage among the
10 largest such areas in the country, and the area's population has one of the highest
annual per capita incomes.
It's not how much we have
but how much we enjoy that
makes us happy.

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