Is the district of columbia in maryland?
490638
the district of columbia was carved out of sections of maryland and virginia and is now considered part of neither.
492656
There has only been one capital city in the United States, Washington D.C. There have been several capitol buildings (the building where congress meets): The Maryland State House in Annapolis, Federal Hall in New York, and Congress Hall in Philadelphia.
175009
Delaware is correct.  \n\nNot only is DC wrong, but it came way late to the game, and it isn't even a flippin state, for crying out loud!  Did you just sleep through 13 years of school, or what?
896042
Nope...unfortunately, i think it's Washington D.C.\n\nOur government affects EVERYONE on a GLOBAL scale in ALL cases.
29128
Washington DC, I don't know.  Washington State, Mt. Ranier.  You can sled and ski there year round.
639465
Because the city is Washington and it's in the District of Columbia, which was created out of land donated by Maryland to house the national capital.  DC is not part of any state.
1067896
The states of Virginia and Maryland wanted the US Capital in their states and a big argument broke out, so they compromised and each state gave part of its territory to make "Washington D.C."
121740
If I remember correctly, they were the first state to elect multiple people per district in their State House.  But that ended, and I know Maryland practices proportional representation right now.\nOutside of that, they have Chicago, the Second City, the Windy City, a city corrupted so much in 1960 to give Kennedy the Presidency, a city where dead people still vote. And despite all this, I love Chicago.
1141580
Washington DC, but it is technically not a state
193837
First in the early days of this country we only had 13 states and where Washington, D.C. is located it fits into the center of what the country was then.  They wanted to build a Capital City so that it would be a city that was built with the express purpose of being the Capital of the New Country.  The Capital had been previously placed in New York City and in Philadelphia.  The capital was placed into an area that was on the Border of Maryland and Virginia and was Named the District Of Columbia, it bordered the two states however was not part of either one.  The City became the Capital in 1800 when John Adams was president.  The city has no representatives in Congress, it does however have 3 Electoral Votes for Presidential elections.  While Washington the City has it's own City Government the District Of Columbia falls under Federal Law.
927709
Mmm....Well from what I have heard the hard drives are in the north south east west region of D.C..\n We know where the hard drives are located, but suspect that the Republicans are going to smuggle them out of the city through either Maryland or Virginia,, ........either state has been "friendly" with Republicans before.
182041
It's D.C. the capitol
719059
did you know that philidelphia was also the capital at one time?\n\nto answer your question, d.c. was formed in order to be the new capital. they didnt just move it to some city, it was created with the intent to become the new capital. it was done partly because the leaders at the time wanted to move the capital out of the north to a city between the northern states and southern states.
494915
New Jersey is the mildew state. Washington State is the apple state while Washington, DC is not a state. The "DC" stands for District of Columbia.
106104
You may know that we have 50 states in the U.S.  Washington, D.C., is of course our capital city.  You are right that the "D.C." stands for District of Columbia.  However, the two - "Washington" and "District of Columbia" - are the same thing, geographically.\n\nThere are no other "districts" - everyplace else is a state.\n\nNot a great answer, I know, but something Americans (I hope) understand.  Hard to explain to a non-American.\n\nTry a couple of websites:\nwww.washington.org (tourism website)\nwww.dc.gov (local city government website)
305052
Originally, both Maryland and Virginia donated land to build the "Federal City" in 1790. The land that Virginia donated (south of the Potomac River) was returned to Virginia in 1847.
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Yes, the District of Columbia has its own court system apart from the Federal Court system.  Like most states, DC has its own trial court of general jurisdiction (DC Superior Court).  The Superior Court is divided into Civil, Criminal, Family, Domestic Violence, and Probate Divisions.\nThe Court of Appeals is the highest court in DC (it is the equivalent of a state supreme court).