L’Enfant Plaza station
L'Enfant Plaza station is an intermodal transit station complex located at L'Enfant Plaza in the Southwest Federal Center neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It consists of an underground Washington Metro rapid transit station and an elevated Virginia Railway Express commuter rail station.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Metro station
- Description: Washington, D.C. metro station
- Also known as: “L’Enfant Plaza” and “L’Enfant Plaza Metro Station”
Places of Interest Nearby
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
Photo: AgnosticPreachersKid, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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 Gallery of Art is situated 2,500 feet north of L’Enfant Plaza station.
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. National Museum of Natural History is situated 2,500 feet northwest of L’Enfant Plaza station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Waterfront and East End.
Waterfront
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
Photo: AgnosticPreachersKid, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
L’Enfant Plaza station
- Categories: underground station, transport hub, railway station, station, and transportation
- Location: Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.88491° or 38° 53′ 6″ northLongitude
-77.02258° or 77° 1′ 21″ westElevation
26 feet (8 metres)Operator
WMATANetwork
Washington MetroOpen location code
87C4VXMG+XXOpenStreetMap ID
node 738189393OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stationOpenStreetMap feature
railway=stationGeoNames ID
4139334Wikidata ID
Q170799
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Urdu—“L’Enfant Plaza station” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “朗方广场站”
- Chinese: “朗方廣場站”
- Chinese: “朗法廣場站”
- Dutch: “L’Enfant Plaza”
- Esperanto: “L’Enfant Plaza”
- French: “L’Enfant Plaza”
- German: “L’Enfant Plaza”
- Italian: “L’Enfant Plaza”
- Japanese: “ランファン・プラザ駅”
- Korean: “랑팡 플라자”
- Polish: “L’Enfant Plaza”
- Russian: “Л’Энфант плаза”
- Russian: “Ланфан-плаза”
- Spanish: “L’Enfant Plaza”
- Ukrainian: “Ел-Елефант Плаза”
- Urdu: “ایل انفینٹ پلازہ اسٹیشن”
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