Washington D.C.

About this city

Also known as: The Federal City, D.C.

Washington D.C. is the capital city of the United States and a globally dominant political, diplomatic, and cultural titan, flatly positioned along the northern banks of the Potomac River between Maryland and Virginia. Established meticulously in 1790 by a historic constitutional act as a planned federal district, the city was brilliantly laid out by Pierre L'Enfant to project national democratic ideals. Today, the metropolis serves as the nerve center for global diplomacy, seamlessly blending its majestic neoclassical marble monuments and gold-leaf legislative halls with progressive public transit grids and world-class free museum infrastructures.