Washington, D.C

Neighborhoods

The Adams-Morgan neighborhood, clustered around Eighteenth Street and Columbia Road N.W., is a colorful multi-ethnic community, one of the first in the country to integrate its public schools. With its distinctly Latin atmosphere, it is known for its ethnic grocery stores, street vendors, galleries, shops, and boutiques, and its restaurants feature a wide variety of ethnic cuisine.

Capitol Hill, or "the Hill," includes not just the Capitol itself but also the Library of Congress, the Senate and House Office Buildings, the Folger Shakespeare Library, Union Station, and the Supreme Court Building. Surrounding these buildings is a quiet residential neighborhood of Federal and Civil Warperiod homes, as well as many art galleries, shops, cafes, and restaurants, as well as a farmer's market. Washington's "downtown" is its business district. In addition to the White House and Lafayette Park, it includes government office buildings, shops, restaurants, theaters, hotels, and Washington's Chinatown.

City Fact Comparison
Indicator	Atlanta	Cairo	Rome	Beijing
	(United States)	(Egypt)	(Italy)	(China)
Population of urban area¹	3,927,000	10,772,000	2,688,000	12,033,000
Date the city was founded	1790	AD 969	753 BC	723 BC
Daily costs to visit the city²
Hotel (single occupancy)	$118	$193	$172	$129
Meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner)	$44	$56	$59	$62
Incidentals (laundry, dry cleaning, etc.)	$2	$14	$15	$16
Total daily costs	$164	$173	$246	$207
Major Newspapers³
Number of newspapers serving the city	2	13	20	11
Largest newspaper	The Washington Post	Akhbar El Yom/Al Akhbar	La Repubblica	Renmin Ribao
Circulation of largest newspaper	759,122	1,159,450	754,930	3,000,000
Date largest newspaper was established	1877	1944	1976	1948
¹United Nations population estimates for the year 2000.
²The maximum amount the U.S. Government reimburses its employees for business travel. The lodging portion of the allowance is based on the cost for a single room at a moderately-priced hotel. The meal portion is based on the costs of an average breakfast, lunch, and dinner including taxes, service charges, and customary tips. Incidental travel expenses include such things as laundry and dry cleaning.
³David Maddux, ed. Editor&Publisher International Year Book. New York: The Editor&Publisher Company, 1999.

DuPont Circle, located at the intersection of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Hampshire avenues, is a popular cultural hot spot that is home to museums, galleries, bookstores (including

The Washington Monument (tall obelisk, left) and the Jefferson Memorial (round monument, center) are two well-known Washington landmarks. ()

some open 24 hours a day), and movie theaters, in an atmosphere of aristocratic rowhouses. Historic Georgetown—settled c. 1665, during the Colonial era, before the city of Washington itself—has long been one of the Capital's most upscale neighborhoods and the residence of many leading government figures and other prominent Washingtonians.

The Foggy Bottom area, between the White House and Georgetown, gets its name from the marshlands that were formerly located there. Today it is the site of the State Department, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and George Washington University.

The historic Brookland and Shaw communities have been home to many prominent African Americans, including jazz musician Edward "Duke" Ellington (1899–1974), singer Pearl Bailey (1918–1990), and Nobel Peace Prize winner Ralph Bunche (1904–1971).

Embassy Row, on Massachusetts Avenue, is home to most of the capital's 150 foreign embassies, many housed in palatial mansions that are former homes of the Washington social elite.