According to a piece of legislation of 187 1, the above three districts were merged into Washington City in 1878, and the federal jurisdiction of the SAR and the local government of Washington City overlapped from this jurisdiction, thus resulting in the general name of "Washington District" used today.
Washington, D.C., also known as Huadu and Washington for short, is the capital of the United States of America. It is named after George Washington, the first president of the United States. It is close to Virginia and Maryland and is located in the northeastern United States and the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. It is a special administrative division established as the capital in 1790, which is directly under the jurisdiction of the US Congress, so it does not belong to any state in the United States.
As of 20 16, the downtown area of Washington is 177 square kilometers; 20 19 10, with a population of about 700,000. The highest authority in Washington, D.C. is the U.S. Congress, which administers it through the Washington City Government. But Washington citizens have only one voting representative in the House of Representatives and no representative in the Senate.
Washington's real GDP in 20 16 was109.3 billion dollars, ranking 34th among American states. Its main industry is related to government agencies. It is the seat of most American federal government agencies and embassies in the United States, the headquarters of international organizations such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the Organization of American States, and it also has many museums and cultural and historical sites.
On February 26th, 20 19, 19 ranked 20th in the list of top 500 global cities. ?
On April 22nd, 20021year, local time, the House of Representatives of the United States voted to pass a bill to designate Washington, D.C. as the 5th1th state in the United States. When Washington, D.C. becomes a state, it will have two seats in the Senate and 65,438+0 seats in the House of Representatives, while the White House, Congress and national mall will remain federal districts.
geography
Washington, D.C. is located on the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States, with latitude 38.9 13 1 degree north and longitude 77.0438+03222 degrees west. Total area 177 km2, of which 10. 16% is surface water. The southwest of the SAR is connected with Virginia, with the Potomac River as the border and Maryland on the other three sides.
There are three rivers flowing through Washington State, namely, the Potomac River and its tributaries, the Ana Castia River and the Rock River (Xi Shi and Yan Xi).
The highest point in Washington is 125m above sea level, located in Tenleytown, and the lowest point is sea level. The city center is located in Northwest 4th Street, Northwest L Street and Northwest new york Avenue, not the dome of the Capitol.
climate
Washington has a subtropical humid climate with four distinct seasons, relatively mild temperature changes and even precipitation distribution throughout the year. Winter is cold, slightly wet and sometimes cold. The average daily maximum temperature is below 0℃(32℉) for 7.4 days, and the average daily minimum temperature is below 0℃(32℉) for 60 days. The average number of days in10 c (14 f) is 2.3 days;
Summer is hot and humid. The average number of days when the daily maximum temperature exceeds 30℃ is 72 days, and that exceeding 35℃ is 12 days. The average temperature in Leng Yue (65438+1October) is 3.1c (37.5 f), and the extreme minimum temperature? 26 degrees celsius (? 15 F) (1899 February 1 1).
Refer to the above? Baidu Encyclopedia -DC Washington State