Is D.C. bigger than Rhode Island?
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No. \n\nArea:\nRhode Island: 1550 square miles\nDistrict of Columbia: 68 square miles\n\nPopulation (2005):\nRhode Island: 1,076,189\nDistrict of Columbia: 550,521
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Although the whole world knows Washington, DC as the capital of the United States, the city did not exist when we became a nation in 1789. The seat of the new government was located temporarily in New York City. A year later it was moved to Philadelphia. When it came to selecting the place for a permanent capital, both these cities were among those who vied to be chosen. Some of the competing cities offered land and money as incentives. A fierce rivalry developed between the northern and southern states over the location, a conflict that was finally resolved by a political compromise. In exchange for agreeing to locate the capital in the southern region, the northern states were relieved of the heavy debts they had incurred during the Revolution.\n\nIn 1790 Congress passed the Residence Act giving President George Washington the power to select a site for a new federal district, as the then-nameless capital was called. The Act also said that Congress would continue to meet in Philadelphia until 1800, when the capital city was supposed to be ready for the government to move in.\n\nWashington's own estate, Mount Vernon, was located on the Potomac River below the bustling river towns of Alexandria, Virginia and Georgetown, Maryland. He was convinced that the land along the Potomac had enormous commercial potential as a shipping center if it were linked by canal to the Western frontier. For the site of the new capital Washington picked an area at the junction of the Potomac and Anacostia rivers about 14 miles upstream from Mount Vernon.\n\nA survey of the land, a "ten-mile square" which had been ceded by Maryland, was undertaken by Andrew Ellicott with the help of Benjamin Banneker, a free black from Maryland who was a self- taught mathematician and astronomer. Forty boundary stones, laid at one-mile intervals, established the boundaries based on Banneker's celestial calculations. Most of the land consisted of floodplain, dense forest, and farmland. In order to speed development of the city, Washington convinced a number of local landholders to donate tracts of land for the new capital.\n\n"It is sometimes called the City of Magnificent Distances, but it might with greater propriety be termed the City of Magnificent Intentions."      — Charles Dickens, 1842
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The District of Columbia—identical with the city of Washington—is the capital of the United States. It is located between Virginia and Maryland on the Potomac River. The district is named after Columbus.\n\nDC history began in 1790 when Congress directed selection of a new capital site, 100 sq mi, along the Potomac. When the site was determined, it included 30.75 sq mi on the Virginia side of the river. In 1846, however, Congress returned that area to Virginia, leaving the 68.25 sq mi ceded by Maryland in 1788. The seat of government was transferred from Philadelphia to Washington on Dec. 1, 1800, and President John Adams became the first resident in the White House.\n\nThe city was planned and partly laid out by Maj. Pierre Charles L'Enfant, a French engineer. This work was perfected and completed by Maj. Andrew Ellicott and Benjamin Banneker, a freeborn black man who was an astronomer and mathematician. In 1814, during the War of 1812, a British force burned the capital including the White House.\n\nUntil Nov. 3, 1967, the District of Columbia was administered by three commissioners appointed by the president. On that day, a government consisting of a mayor-commissioner and a 9-member council, all appointed by the president with the approval of the Senate, took office. On May 7, 1974, the citizens of the District of Columbia approved a Home Rule Charter, giving them an elected mayor and 13-member council—their first elected municipal government in more than a century. The district also has one nonvoting member in the House of Representatives and an elected Board of Education.\n\nOn Aug. 22, 1978, Congress passed a proposed constitutional amendment to give Washington, DC, voting representation in the Congress. The amendment had to be ratified by at least 38 state legislatures within seven years to become effective. It died in 1985. A petition asking for the district's admission to the Union as the 51st state was filed in Congress on Sept. 9, 1983, and new statehood bills were introduced in 1993. The district is continuing this drive for statehood.\n\nThe federal government and tourism are the mainstays of the city's economy, and many unions, business, professional, and nonprofit organizations are headquartered there. Among the city's many educational institutions are the Catholic University of America, Georgetown University, Howard University, and Gallaudet University. Cultural attractions include the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and the Folger Shakespeare Library\n\n\nAlternatively you could go to the websites below for more information
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D.C. is very good buy enjoi is what the pros use well some of them. But enjoi is very expensive compared to D.C. and D.C. is sold everywhere.
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Washington the Capital City of the U.S. was built in two states, Maryland and Virginia so that the capital of the country would not be in one particular state.  The area set aside for building the capital city is the District of Columbia in which Washington and it's suburbs exist.  The District of Columbia while it borders the two states is actually a separate entity from those states.  The Nations Capital is actually controlled by the Federal Government.
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They did . It was at the Center of the Coast line And is now DC not affiliated with States but its own Jury-esh Diction.
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No.  The whole Constitution was a compromise between the large states, like Virginia, and New York, and the small states like Rhode Island.  \nWe probably should have stuck with the Articles of Confederation.
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Washington D.C. is not located in any of the 50 United States. It is it's own entity, the District of Columbia. (D.C. Get it?) That's so that the National Government isn't going to prefer one state over another.
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(m)\n\n"D.C." stands for the District of Columbia, the federal district containing the city of Washington.
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United States: 9,161,923 sq km\nUnited Kingdom: 241,590 sq km \n\nThat's almost 38 times as big...
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presumably because everything is bigger in America....
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Maybe... Because... the district is in there. Jeeezzaa!! I really am not quite sure! (Hint: District as in District of Columbia aka capital of America!)
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I am for a strong local government and a weaker federal government.   I say this because I believe govt can impact people's lives at a local level far better than from washington d.c.
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The question of which city is the largest is often confused by political divisions which separate contiguous urban areas into different cities by name, even when the city for all intents and purposes extends over the entire region, such as Dallas and Fort Worth, or the entire set of burroughs that combine to form New York City.  Many of these regions are also surrounded by additional urbanized areas that can extend the 'city' even further.\n\nAccording to Demographia World Urban Areas (World Agglomerations 2006) New York City is the largest city, at 3,353 square miles (8,683 square km).  Including the entire urban area around New York City (New York, Bridgeport (CT), New Haven (CT), Trenton (NJ), Danbury (CT) and Hightstown (NJ)) it comes to 4,325 square miles (11,202 square km).\n\nIn comparison, Mexico City is only 800 square miles.  The area of Tokyo-Yokohama comes in second in the world at 2,700 square miles.  My own city of Edmonton is a mere 328 square miles.  Hong Kong is a puny 85 square miles.  However, there's 6.5 million people packed into that 85 square miles.  \n\nIn terms of population, Tokyo is the tops at 33,200,000 people.  New York comes second at 17,800,000.  Sao Paulo, Brazil has nearly the same population as New York at 17,700,000 but the Sao Pauloites are crammed into just 760 square miles.  That's a little too crowded for me.
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There is no capitol of D.C. b/c it is not a state. It is not a city either. It is a part of Maryland which is zoned as a federal district. D.C. is divided into neighborhoods, though, the most famous of which is Georgetown. D.C. is considered to be the capitol of the United States of America.
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Virginia is BIG! What part? ty for the 2 pts.\n\nI've lived in Virginia Bch and Norfolk but because of all the inner city schools, my kids went to private school.
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NO it is called The Federal District of Columbia, it has electoral representation, but not elected congressionally represented. It is the only District in USA asa classified like that. American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, The Virgin Islands[though not by now :)- ], Vanuatu, Wake Islands, Midway, Johnston ISlands and the Baker/Howell Islands are all other non-states in the Union, Palau and Micronesia are associatead Republllics by a Compact of Free Association. SO, DC isnt state nor territroy nor anything, it is its own enttity.