Washingon DC

muddycat · Jan 19, 2005

Champ said:

Washington DC is *definitely* not in a state, for very good reason -
it is the federal capital of the USA, and therefore it was (and mostly
still is[1]) felt that it should not come under the jurisdiction of
any individual state.
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Correct. It's actually more like a city and has a Mayor.

Jim Crowther · Jan 19, 2005

Go on then, which US State is Washington DC in? I know that DC = District Of
Columbia, but Google refuses to clearly tell me which state this is.
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Pinched from Maryland, by the looks of it:

<http://www.enchantedlearning.com/usa/states/dc/>

genuine_froggie · Jan 20, 2005

Beav said:

So what state IS it in?
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It's not _in_ a state. It 'straddles' (IIRC, and I stress the 'IIRC')
three states: Maryland, Virginia and Delaware.

genuine_froggie · Jan 20, 2005

genuine_froggie said:

It's not _in_ a state. It 'straddles' (IIRC, and I stress the 'IIRC')
three states: Maryland, Virginia and Delaware.
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I was wrong. According to....

url:http://www.exploredc.org/index.php?id=2&PHPSESSID=e8a2a0057b052fa0b1
4e9ffefe29f578

.... the ten mile-square thingy came from Maryland.

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