DCDistrict of Columbia
Nobody has planted a flag here. It has been available since the map opened.
Claim it for
$5
The place
District since 1801 · never a state · Eastern time
Washington is a company town where the company is the federal government, and everything else about it grew in the gaps. It has more people than Wyoming or Vermont and no voting member of Congress, a fact residents put on their licence plates. Beneath the monumental core is a genuine city, one that invented go-go music and hardcore punk in the same decade. Go for the museums, which are free and enormous, but walk east to H Street or Anacostia to see the place people actually live in.
More people than Wyoming or Vermont, and no voting member of Congress.
Eat
The half-smoke
Drink
DC Brau
Listen
Fugazi
Bird
Wood thrush
Flower
American Beauty rose
Tree
Scarlet oak
Grows
Community gardens, mostly
The actual state · 2025
- Population
- 693,645
- Land area
- 61 mi²
- GDP per head
- $277,689
- Median household
- $109,289
- Joined
- District since 1801
- Civil War
- Union
Largest cities
- 1Washington702K
Race
- White46.2%
- Black41.6%
- Asian5.8%
Hispanic or Latino12.9%
Counted across all races, so it overlaps the figures above.
No history yet
This one is still on the board. $5 and it is yours, and then it is somebody else's problem to take it back.