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Population :	705,749
Country :	United States of America
State :	Washington, D.C.
Different from :	District of Columbia
Head of government :	Mayor of the District of Columbia
Postal code :	20201–20599, 20001–20098
Phone Area Codes :	202
Area :	259 km²
Official name :	Washington, District of Columbia
Water as percent of area :	10.67%
Land as percent of area :	89.33%
Continent :	North America
Northernmost point :	Point(-77.041 38.9955)
IATA airport code :	WAS
Named for :	Christopher Columbus, George Washington
Capital city :	Washington is capital of United States of America
Establishment :	July 07, 1790 (230 years ago)
Time Zone :	UTC−04:00, UTC−05:00, America/New_York, Eastern Time Zone
Local time :	01:12:42 (21st April 2021)

Adrian Fenty , 6 2 January, 2011 2007-01-02T00:00:00Z 2006 Washington, D.C. mayoral election Democratic Party
Walter Washington , 1 2 January, 1979 1975-01-02T00:00:00Z 1974 Washington, D.C. mayoral election Democratic Party
Marion Barry , 2 2 January, 1991 1979-01-02T00:00:00Z 1986 Washington, D.C. mayoral election 1982 Washington, D.C. mayoral election 1978 Washington, D.C. mayoral election Democratic Party
Muriel Bowser , 8 2015-01-02T00:00:00Z 2018 Washington, D.C. mayoral election 2014 Washington, D.C. mayoral election Democratic Party
Marion Barry , 4 2 January, 1999 1995-01-02T00:00:00Z 1994 Washington, D.C. mayoral election Democratic Party
Vincent C. Gray , 7 2 January, 2015 2011-01-02T00:00:00Z 2010 Washington, D.C. mayoral election Democratic Party
Anthony A. Williams , 5 2 January, 2007 1999-01-02T00:00:00Z 1998 Washington, D.C. mayoral election 2002 Washington, D.C. mayoral election Democratic Party
Sharon Pratt Kelly , 1991-01-02T00:00:00Z 1990 Washington, D.C. mayoral election Democratic Party 3 2 January, 1995

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Washington, DC has 7 neighbors .

Bethesda unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States
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Arlington county in Virginia, United States; suburb of Washington, D.C.
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Year	Population	Method
1800	8,144	estimation process
1810	15,471	estimation process
1820	23,336	estimation process
1830	30,261	census
1840	33,745	census
1850	51,687	estimation process
1860	75,080	estimation process
1870	131,700	estimation process
1880	177,624	census
1890	230,392	census
1900	278,718	census
1908	321,000	census
1910	331,069	census
1918	418,000	census
1920	437,571	census
1930	486,869	census
1940	663,091	1940 United States Census
1950	802,178	census
1960	763,956	census
1970	756,510	census
1980	638,333	census
1990	606,900	census
2000	572,059	census
2010	601,723	census
2011	619,800	estimation process
2012	634,924	estimation process
2013	650,581	estimation process
2014	662,328	estimation process
2015	675,400	estimation process
2016	685,815	estimation process
2017	694,906	estimation process
2018	701,547	estimation process
2019	705,749	estimation process

Washington, DC zip code is 20001. County name: District of Columbia, County fips: 11001

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People born in Washington, DC (200)

People born in Washington, DC, including philosopher Tim Maudlin, diplomat Charles W. Freeman, computer scientist Butler Lampson, you can see a list of people who born in Washington, DC.

William Warren Tunnicliffe (Canadian computer pioneer)
Maynard Olson (American scientist)
Alonzo Church (American mathematician)
Eric Schmidt (software engineer, businessman, former Google CEO)
John Vlissides (American Software scientist)
Dan Ingalls (American computer scientist)
Ron Jeffries (American computer scientist)
David S. Johnson (American computer scientist)
Jack Edmonds (Canadian mathematician and computer scientist)
Arleen Sorkin (American actress)
William Hurt (American actor and filmmaker)
Adam Riess (American Nobel laureate)
Norman Foster Ramsey (American physicist)
Christopher A. Sims (American time-series statistician and econometrician, developer of vector auto-regressive models, Bayesian statistician, President of the Econometric Society, 2011 winner of the Nobel Prize)
Dominique Caillat (writer)
Andy Razaf (Malagasy-American poet, composer and lyricist)
Martin O'Malley (American politician)
Markus Dröge (German bishop)