Hancock Park

Hancock Park is a park in Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic. Hancock Park is situated nearby to the neighborhood The Wharf, as well as near the quarter Southwest Waterfront.

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Places of Interest

Highlights include National Mall and National Gallery of Art.

National Mall

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The National Mall, a national park, is a famous 2-mile-long tree-lined, pedestrian-friendly boulevard in Washington, D.C. stretching from the Capitol Building in the east to the Lincoln Memorial and Potomac River on the west.

National Gallery of Art

Museum

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The National Gallery of Art is an art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW.

National Museum of Natural History

Museum

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The National Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum administered by the Smithsonian Institution, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Waterfront and East End.

Waterfront

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The Waterfront is just south of the National Mall. In addition to beautiful views of the Washington Channel, which separates the parkland on Hains Point with the land contiguous with the National Mall, this neighborhood includes great seafood, restaurants, bars, sports stadiums, entertainment options and boat excursions.

East End

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East End is D.C.'s old downtown quarter, east of 15th St, and includes the neighborhoods of Chinatown, Penn Quarter, Judiciary Square, and Mount Vernon Square. Most D.C. natives simply call this area Downtown.

Downtown

Suburb

Photo: Kurt Kaiser, CC0.

Downtown is the central business district of Washington, D.C., located in Northwest D.C. It is the third largest central business district in the United States.

Hancock Park

Type: Park
Description: park in District of Columbia, United States of America, United States of America
Category: recreation area
Location: Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

38.88606° or 38° 53′ 10″ north

Longitude

-77.02299° or 77° 1′ 23″ west

Elevation

26 feet (8 metres)

Open location code

87C4VXPG+CR

OpenStreetMap ID

way 41965138

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=park

GeoNames ID

4139021

Wikidata ID

Q49497582

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

“Hancock Park” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Hancock Park (parke sa Estados Unidos, District of Columbia)”
Cebuano: “Hancock Park”

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Localities in the Area

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