Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area
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The Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area is the metropolitan area consisting of Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Maryland, Northern Virginia, Central Maryland, and two counties in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. It is the fourth largest metropolitan area in the U.S. after New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago.
Officially, the area is designated the Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV Combined Statistical Area (CSA). The CSA includes the Baltimore Metropolitan Statistical Area the Hagerstown, MD MSA and the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV MSA. Some counties and cities are not officially designated by the Census Bureau as members of this metropolitan area, but still consider themselves members anyway. This is mostly due to their proximity to the area, the size of their commuter population, and by the influence of local broadcasting stations. The population of the entire Baltimore-Washington Metroplex as of 2000 is 7.6 million, up from 6.7 million in 1990. The estimated populaton of the Baltimore-Washington area as of 2005 is about 8 million.
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Counties and districts
District of Columbia
Maryland
Counties
- Anne Arundel County
- Baltimore County
- Calvert County
- Carroll County
- Charles County
- Frederick County
- Harford County
- Howard County
- Montgomery County
- Prince George's County
- Queen Anne's County
- Saint Mary's County
- Washington County
Independent cities
Virginia
Counties
- Arlington County
- Clarke County
- Culpeper County
- Fairfax County
- Fauquier County
- King George County
- Loudoun County
- Prince William County
- Spotsylvania County
- Stafford County
Independent Cities
West Virginia
List of cities
See List of cities in the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area for a full list.
Central cities
- Baltimore, Maryland (Major airport: adjacent to Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, in Anne Arundel County)
- Washington, D.C.
- Hagerstown, Maryland
- Annapolis, Maryland (Capital of Maryland)
- Alexandria, VA
- Arlington County, VA (Major airport: Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Recognized as a central city by the U.S. Census Bureau)
See also
- United States metropolitan area
- National Capital Region
- List of parks in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area
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State of Maryland |
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| Regions: |
Western | Southern | Eastern Shore | Baltimore-Washington Metro Area | Chesapeake | Delaware Valley |
| Notable Cities: | Baltimore | Bowie | College Park | Cumberland | Frederick | Gaithersburg | Greenbelt | Hagerstown | Hyattsville | Laurel | Rockville | Salisbury | Takoma Park | Westminster |
| Counties: |
Allegany | Anne Arundel | Baltimore City | Baltimore County | Calvert | Caroline | Carroll | Cecil | Charles | Dorchester | Frederick | Garrett | Harford | Howard | Kent | Montgomery | Prince George's | Queen Anne's | St. Mary's | Somerset | Talbot | Washington | Wicomico | Worcester |
