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Washington DC Expat Guide from expatarrivals.com

Washington DC is a relatively small area in comparison to the amount of power and influence within its district limits. This concentration of agencies, departments, businesses, consulates and young eager professionals makes the city so dense with potential that expats seem to be magnetically drawn to its constructs.

Yet despite its iconic image as the centre of American power, DC is also indefinable with ambiguous borders and a contrasting image. The district, which is politically neither a state nor only a city, has few more than half a million people, yet the huge DC metro area borrows from neighbouring state land to create a metropolis ten times that size. 'DC' usually refers not only to the District of Colombia but to parts of Maryland and Virginia that feed into the city.... read more on expatarrivals.com
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