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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress is a research library in Washington, D.C, serving as the library and research service for the United States Congress and the de facto national library of the United States.
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  • Type: Library
  • Description: (de facto) national library of the United States of America
  • Also known as: “Congressional Library”, “LC”, “LoC”, “LOC”, “loc.gov”, “United States. Library of Congress”, and “US Library of Congress”
  • Postal code: 20540

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include National Mall and United States Capitol.

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

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The , often called the Capitol or the Capitol Building, is the seat of the United States Congress, the legislative branch of the federal government. is situated 1,400 feet west of Library of Congress.

Library
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The is an independent research library on in , United States. It has the world's largest collection of the printed works of William Shakespeare, and is a primary repository for rare materials from the early modern period in Britain and Europe. is situated 580 feet northeast of Library of Congress.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Capitol Hill and NoMa.

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is a venerable neighborhood just east of the Capitol building, best known as the main residence in the city for the legislative and judicial branches of the U.S. government, and for the staffers who run the place.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood of , located in Ward 6 of the city. The neighborhood encompasses the region north of Massachusetts Avenue located north and east of Union Station.

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The is just south of the . 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.

Library of Congress

Latitude
38.88845° or 38° 53′ 18″ north
Longitude
-77.00442° or 77° 0′ 16″ west
Elevation
92 feet (28 metres)
Open location code
87C4VXQW+96
Geo­Names ID
4139387
Wiki­data ID
Q131454
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Library of Congress” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Biblioteek van die V.S.A. Kongres”
  • Afrikaans: “Biblioteek van die VSA-kongres”
  • Amharic: “LC”
  • Amharic: “Library of Congress”
  • Amharic: “LoC”
  • Amharic: “US Library of Congress”
  • Amharic: “ኮንግረስ ቤተ መጻሕፍት”
  • Arabic: “مكتبة الكونجرس الأمريكي”
  • Arabic: “مكتبة الكونجرس”
  • Arabic: “مكتبة الكونغرس”
  • Arabic: “مكتبه الكونغرس”
  • Armenian: “Կոնգրեսի գրադարան”
  • Assamese: “দ্য লাইব্ৰেৰী অব্ কংগ্ৰেছ”
  • Asturian: “Biblioteca del Congresu d’Estaos Xuníos”
  • Asturian: “Biblioteca del Congresu dEstaos Xuníos”
  • Azerbaijani: “ABŞ Konqres Kitabxanası”
  • Azerbaijani: “Konqres Kitabxanası”
  • Bashkir: “Library of Congress”
  • Bashkir: “АҠШ Конгрессы китапханаһы”
  • Bashkir: “Конгресс китапханаһы”
  • Basque: “Ameriketako Estatu Batuetako Kongresuaren Liburutegia”
  • Basque: “Ameriketako Estatu Batuetako Kongresuko Liburutegia”
  • Belarusian: “Library of Congress”
  • Belarusian: “Бібліятэка Кангрэса ЗША”
  • Belarusian: “Бібліятэка Кангрэса”
  • Belarusian: “Бібліятэка Кангрэсу ЗША”
  • Belarusian: “Бібліятэка Кангрэсу”
  • Bengali: “লাইব্রেরি অফ কংগ্রেস”
  • Bengali: “লাইব্রেরি অব কংগ্রেস”
  • Bosnian: “Kongresna biblioteka”
  • Breton: “Library of Congress”
  • Bulgarian: “Библиотека на Конгреса на САЩ”
  • Bulgarian: “Библиотека на Конгреса на Съединените щати”
  • Bulgarian: “Библиотека на Конгреса”
  • Bulgarian: “Конгресна библиотека”
  • Bulgarian: “Конгресната библиотека”
  • Catalan: “Biblioteca del Congrés dels Estats Units”
  • Catalan: “Biblioteca del Congrés”
  • Catalan: “Library of Congress”
  • Central Kanuri: “Library of Congress”
  • Central Kurdish: “کتێبخانەی کۆنگرە”
  • Central Kurdish: “کتێبخانەی کۆنگەرە”
  • Chechen: “Конгрессан библиотека”
  • Chinese: “Bí-kok kok-hōe tô͘-su-koán”
  • Chinese: “USLC”
  • Chinese: “国会图书馆 (美国)”
  • Chinese: “国会图书馆”
  • Chinese: “國會圖書館”
  • Chinese: “美国国会图书馆”
  • Chinese: “美國國會圖書館”
  • Cornish: “Lyverva Kuntelles”
  • Croatian: “knjižnica američkog Kongresa”
  • Croatian: “knjižnica Kongresa SAD-a”
  • Croatian: “knjižnica Kongresa SAD”
  • Croatian: “knjižnica Kongresa Sjedinjenih Američkih Država”
  • Croatian: “knjižnica Kongresa”
  • Croatian: “Kongresna knjižnica”
  • Czech: “Knihovna kongresu USA”
  • Czech: “Knihovna Kongresu”
  • Czech: “Kongresová knihovna”
  • Czech: “Library of Congress”
  • Danish: “Library of Congress”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kutıbxaney Kongrey”
  • Dutch: “Library of Congress”
  • Dutch: “LOC”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مكتبة الكونجرس الأمريكى”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مكتبة الكونجرس الامريكى”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مكتبة الكونجرس”
  • Esperanto: “Biblioteko de Kongreso”
  • Esperanto: “Kongresa Biblioteko de Usono”
  • Esperanto: “Kongresa Biblioteko”
  • Esperanto: “Kongresa Libraro”
  • Esperanto: “Library of Congress”
  • Esperanto: “LoC”
  • Estonian: “Ameerika Ühendriikide Kongressi raamatukogu”
  • Estonian: “Ameerika Ühendriikide Kongressi Raamatukogu”
  • Estonian: “Kongressi Raamatukogu”
  • Estonian: “Library of Congress”
  • Estonian: “USA Kongressi raamatukogu”
  • Finnish: “Kongressin kirjasto”
  • Finnish: “Library of Congress”
  • Finnish: “Yhdysvaltain kongressin kirjasto”
  • French: “Bibliotheque du Congres”
  • French: “bibliothèque du Congrès”
  • French: “Bibliothèque du congrès”
  • French: “Bibliothèque du Congrès”
  • French: “Librairie du Congrès”
  • French: “Library of Congress”
  • French: “U.S. Library of Congress”
  • Galician: “Biblioteca do Congreso dos Estados Unidos de América”
  • Georgian: “აშშ-ის კონგრესის ბიბლიოთეკა”
  • Georgian: “კონგრესის ბიბლიოთეკა”
  • German: “Kongressbibliothek”
  • German: “Kongreßbibliothek”
  • German: “Librarians of Congress”
  • German: “Library of Congress”
  • German: “LoC”
  • Greek: “Library of Congress”
  • Greek: “Βιβλιοθήκη του Κογκρέσου”
  • Gujarati: “લાઇબ્રેરી ઑવ્ કૉંગ્રેસ”
  • Hausa: “Dakin Karatu na Congres”
  • Hebrew: “ספריית הקונגרס האמריקאי”
  • Hebrew: “ספריית הקונגרס”
  • Hebrew: “ספרית הקונגרס”
  • Hindi: “लाइब्रेरी ऑफ़ कॉंग्रेस”
  • Hungarian: “Kongresszusi Könyvtár”
  • Hungarian: “LoC”
  • Hungarian: “LOC”
  • Ido: “Biblioteko di Kongreso”
  • Indonesian: “Library of Congress”
  • Indonesian: “Perpustakaan Kongres Amerika Serikat”
  • Indonesian: “Perpustakaan Kongres”
  • Irish: “Leabharlann na Comhdhála”
  • Italian: “Biblioteca del Congresso”
  • Italian: “Library of Congress”
  • Italian: “The Library of Congress”
  • Japanese: “Library of Congress”
  • Japanese: “アメリカ合衆国議会図書館”
  • Japanese: “アメリカ国会図書館”
  • Japanese: “アメリカ議会図書館”
  • Japanese: “米国議会図書館”
  • Javanese: “Kapustakan Konggrès”
  • Javanese: “Library of Congress”
  • Kashubian: “Bibloteka Kongresu”
  • Kazakh: “Конгресс кітапханасы”
  • Korean: “미국 의회도서관”
  • Korean: “미국의회도서관”
  • Kurdish: “Pirtûkxaneya Kongreyê”
  • Latin: “Bibliotheca Congressus Civitatum Foederatarum”
  • Latvian: “ASV Kongresa bibliotēka”
  • Latvian: “Kongresa bibliotēka”
  • Latvian: “Library of Congress”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Biblioteca de la Congresa”
  • Lithuanian: “JAV Kongreso biblioteka”
  • Lithuanian: “Kongreso biblioteka”
  • Lithuanian: “Library of Congress”
  • Luxembourgish: “Library of Congress”
  • Macedonian: “Конгресна библиотека”
  • Malay: “Perpustakaan Kongres Amerika Syarikat”
  • Malayalam: “LC”
  • Malayalam: “Library of Congress”
  • Malayalam: “ലൈബ്രറി ഓഫ് കോൺഗ്രസ്സ്”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bí-kok kok-hōe tô͘-su-koán”
  • Mingrelian: “კონგრესიშ ბიბლიოთეკა”
  • Moksha: “Библиотекась Конгрессть”
  • Mongolian: “АНУ-ын Конгрессын номын сан”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kongressbiblioteket”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Library of Congress”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “The Library of Congress”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “US Library of Congress”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kongressbiblioteket i USA”
  • Norwegian: “Library of Congress”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bibliotèca dau Congrès”
  • Ossetian: “Конгрессы библиотекæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਾਂਗਰਸ ਦੀ ਲਾਇਬ੍ਰੇਰੀ”
  • Persian: “کتابخانه کنگره آمریکا”
  • Persian: “کتابخانهٔ کنگرهٔ امریکا”
  • Persian: “کتابخانه کنگره ایالات متحده آمریکا”
  • Persian: “کتابخانه کنگره ایالات متحده امریکا”
  • Persian: “کتابخانه کنگره”
  • Persian: “کتابخانه ملی کنگره آمریکا”
  • Persian: “کتابخانهٔ ملی کنگرهٔ آمریکا”
  • Persian: “کتابخانه ملی کنگره امریکا”
  • Persian: “کتابخانه ملی کنگره ایالات متحده آمریکا”
  • Persian: “کتابخانه ملی کنگره ایالات متحده”
  • Persian: “کتابخانه‌ی کنگره‌ی آمریکا”
  • Polish: “Biblioteka Kongresu Stanów Zjednoczonych”
  • Polish: “Biblioteka Kongresu USA”
  • Polish: “Biblioteka Kongresu”
  • Polish: “Library of Congress”
  • Portuguese: “Biblioteca do Congresso Americano”
  • Portuguese: “Biblioteca do Congresso dos Estados Unidos”
  • Portuguese: “Biblioteca do Congresso”
  • Portuguese: “Library of congress”
  • Portuguese: “Livraria do congresso”
  • Portuguese: “US Library of Congress”
  • Pushto: “کانګرس کتابتون”
  • Romanian: “Biblioteca Congresului American”
  • Romanian: “Biblioteca Congresului Statelor Unite ale Americii”
  • Romanian: “Biblioteca Congresului SUA”
  • Romanian: “Biblioteca Congresului”
  • Romanian: “Library of Congress”
  • Romanian: “LoC”
  • Russian: “Library of Congress”
  • Russian: “The Library of Congress”
  • Russian: “Библиотека конгресса США”
  • Russian: “Библиотека Конгресса”
  • Serbian: “Kongresna biblioteka”
  • Serbian: “Library of Congress”
  • Serbian: “Конгресна библиотека САД”
  • Serbian: “Конгресна библиотека Сједињених Америчких Држава”
  • Serbian: “Конгресна библиотека”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kongresna biblioteka”
  • Sinhala: “කොන්ග්‍රස් පුස්තකාලය”
  • Slovak: “Kongresová knižnica”
  • Slovak: “Library of Congress”
  • Slovenian: “Knjižnica ameriškega Kongresa”
  • Slovenian: “Kongresna knjižnica”
  • Slovenian: “LC”
  • Slovenian: “Library of Congress”
  • Slovenian: “LoC”
  • Slovenian: “LOC”
  • Spanish: “Biblioteca del Congreso de Estados Unidos de Norteamerica”
  • Spanish: “Biblioteca del Congreso de Estados Unidos de Norteamérica”
  • Spanish: “Biblioteca del Congreso de Estados Unidos”
  • Spanish: “Biblioteca del Congreso de los EE UU”
  • Spanish: “Biblioteca del Congreso de los EE.UU.”
  • Spanish: “Biblioteca del Congreso de los Estados Unidos”
  • Spanish: “Biblioteca del Congreso de Washington”
  • Spanish: “Biblioteca del Congreso”
  • Spanish: “Library of Congress”
  • Spanish: “Libreria del Congreso de los Estados Unidos”
  • Spanish: “Librería del Congreso de los Estados Unidos”
  • Spanish: “U.S. Library of Congress”
  • Swedish: “Kongressbiblioteket”
  • Swedish: “Library of Congress”
  • Swedish: “USA:s kongressbibliotek”
  • Swiss German: “Library of Congress”
  • Tajik: “Китобхонаи Конгресс”
  • Tamil: “அமெரிக்கக் காங்கிரசு நூலகம்”
  • Tamil: “காங்கிரசு நூலகம்”
  • Tamil: “காங்கிரஸ் நூல் நிலையம்”
  • Tatar: “Конгресс китапханәсе”
  • Telugu: “యునైటెడ్ స్టేట్స్ లైబ్రరీ ఆఫ్ కాంగ్రెస్”
  • Telugu: “లైబ్రరీ ఆఫ్ కాంగ్రెస్”
  • Thai: “Library of Congress”
  • Thai: “หอสมุดรัฐสภา”
  • Thai: “หอสมุดรัฐสภาอเมริกัน”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Library of Congress”
  • Turkish: “ABD Kongre Kütüphanesi”
  • Turkish: “ABD Kongresi Kütüphanesi”
  • Turkish: “Amerika Birleşik Devletleri Kongre Kütüphanesi”
  • Turkish: “Kongre Kütüphanesi”
  • Turkish: “Library of Congress”
  • Ukrainian: “LC”
  • Ukrainian: “Library of Congress”
  • Ukrainian: “Бібліотека Конгресу США”
  • Ukrainian: “Бібліотека Конгресу”
  • Urdu: “Library of Congress”
  • Urdu: “کتب خانہ کانگریس”
  • Uzbek: “Kongress kutubxonasi”
  • Vietnamese: “Thư viện Quốc hội Hoa Kỳ”
  • Vietnamese: “Thư viện Quốc hội Mỹ”
  • Vietnamese: “Thư viện Quốc hội”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Library of Congress”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sulod-Barasahan han Kongreso”
  • Welsh: “Library of Congress”
  • Welsh: “Llyfrgell Cyngres yr Unol Daleithiau”
  • Welsh: “Llyfrgell y Gyngres”
  • Western Frisian: “Library of Congress”
  • Western Panjabi: “کانگرس لائیبریری”
  • Wu Chinese: “国会图书馆 (美国)”
  • Wu Chinese: “国会图书馆（美国）”
  • Xhosa: “Ithala leencwadi leCongress”
  • Yue Chinese: “國會圖書館”
  • “Library of Congress”

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