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Washington, DC
Washington is the capital of the United States of America. The city was founded in 1791. It is situated on the Potomac river. The city is not very large. It is in the District of Columbia. This city was named after the first president of the United States.
The center of the city is the Capitol. It is the highest building in the city which contains the Senate and the House of Representatives. Not far from the Capitol is the Congressional Library. The official residence of the President of the United States is the White House. The White House is one of the oldest buildings in the city.
Washington is a large cultural and scientific center of the country. Washington attracts a lot of tourists from many countries due to (благодаря) its restaurants, fashionable hotels and different places of interest such as the National Academy of Sciences, the Congressional Library, the National Museum, the National Gallery of Art, the White House, the Monument to George Washington, the Lincoln memorial, the Jefferson memorial. Washington is the political and economical center of the USA, but there are no skyscrapers in it so the density (плотность) of population is not as high as in the other states.
