Washington, DC

Washington, DC, in the District of Columbia, referred to as "Washington County", or

simply DC, is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, Congress approved in the United States in the creation of capital and permanent national as permitted under the U.S. Constitution. Federal District are therefore not part of any U.S. state. Formation of land along the Potomac River, donated by the states of Maryland and Virginia, but was part of Virginia before Congress in 1846.Founded a new capital city named after George Washington in 1791 to the east of the port located by the George Town. Been consolidated in the city of Washington, Georgetown, and the remaining space in the individual within the region under one government in 1871, which formed the Washington, DC, as it exists today. City shares its name with the U.S. state of Washington, located on the Pacific coast in the country.Washington, DC, and has a resident population of 601,723 in 2010.26 The most populous city in the country. Passengers from the state of Maryland and the surrounding suburbs of Virginia to increase the city's population to more than one million people during the work week. Washington, DC area, which is part of living, and has a population of nearly 5.6 million, and the seventh largest urban area in the country.These centers are located for all the three branches of the federal government of the United States in the region, as well as many monuments and museums in the country. Washington, DC, hosts 176 foreign embassies, as well as the headquarters of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the Organization of American States (OAS), Development Bank, the Pan American Health Organization and the Inter-American (PAHO). And is also home to many other institutions such as trade unions, non-profit organizations, pressure groups, professional associations in the city.And governing the province by the mayor and city council consists of 13 members. However, the United States Congress and the supreme authority of the city, and may cancel the local laws. Population and therefore less autonomy for residents of U.S. states. County has a non-voting delegate in Congress and widespread, but the Senate did not. DC residents can not vote in presidential elections until the ratification of the Twenty-Third Amendment to the Constitution of the United States in 1961.