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Washington, D.C. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (5601 words) |
 | The population of the District of Columbia, as of 2003 U.S. Census Bureau estimates, is 563,384. |
| Washington is surrounded by the states of Virginia (on its southwest side, and a small part of its northwest one) and Maryland (on its southeast and northeast sides, and most of its northwest one); it interrupts those states' common border, which is the Potomac River both upstream and downstream from the District. |
| The George Washington University, founded by an act of Congress in 1821, is the largest institution of higher education in the nation's capital with its main campus in Foggy Bottom and its Mount Vernon campus in the Foxhall neighborhood of Northwest Washington. |
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