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The White House

The White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in , it has served as the residence of every U.S. president since John Adams in 1800 when the national capital was moved from .
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  • Type: Bus stop
  • Description: official residence and office of the President of the United States
  • Also known as: “1600 Pennsylvania Avenue”, “Executive Mansion”, “President’s House”, “President’s Palace”, “Presidential Mansion”, “Presidents House”, “Presidents Palace”, “the White House”, and “White House”
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include National Mall and The Oval Office.

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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.

Government office
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is the formal working space of the president of the United States at the White House in Part of the Executive Office of the President, it is located at the southeast corner of the West Wing. is situated 1,300 feet west of The White House.

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The is a 555-foot tall obelisk on the in , built to commemorate George Washington, a Founding Father of the United States and the nation's first president. is situated 2,600 feet south of The White House.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Downtown and East End.

Suburb
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is the central business district of , located in It is the third largest central business district in the United States.

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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.

Neighborhood
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The is a neighborhood and business improvement district in Covering 43 blocks, it encompasses the western part of Washington's central business district, running from the front yard of the White House's north side to and from 16th Street NW to 21st Street NW and including sections of K Street and Connecticut Avenue.

The White House

Latitude
38.89648° or 38° 53′ 47″ north
Longitude
-77.03316° or 77° 1′ 59″ west
Elevation
56 feet (17 metres)
Network
Old Town Trolley
Open location code
87C4VXW8+HP
Open­Street­Map ID
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Geo­Names ID
4140704
Wiki­data ID
Q35525
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“The White House” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “White House”
  • Afrikaans: “Wit Huis”
  • Afrikaans: “Withuis”
  • Albanian: “Shtëpia e Bardhë”
  • Amharic: “ኋይት ሃውስ”
  • Amharic: “ዋይት ሃውስ”
  • Arabic: “البيت الأبيض”
  • Arabic: “البيت الابيض”
  • Arabic: “بيت أبيض”
  • Arabic: “بيت ابيض”
  • Armenian: “Սպիտակ տուն”
  • Asturian: “Casa Blanca”
  • Aymara: “Janq’u Uta”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ağ Ev”
  • Balinese: “Gedung Putih”
  • Basque: “Etxe Zuria”
  • Basque: “The White House”
  • Basque: “White House”
  • Bavarian: “Weißes Haus”
  • Belarusian: “Белы дом”
  • Bengali: “হোয়াইট হাউস”
  • Bhojpuri: “व्हाइट हाउस”
  • Bosnian: “Bijela kuća”
  • Breton: “Ti Gwenn”
  • Bulgarian: “Белия дом”
  • Bulgarian: “Белият дом”
  • Burmese: “အိမ်ဖြူတော်”
  • Catalan: “Casa Blanca”
  • Cebuano: “Balayng Puti”
  • Cebuano: “White House (parke)”
  • Cebuano: “White House”
  • Central Kurdish: “کۆشکی سپی”
  • Chechen: “КIайн ЦIа (Вашингтон)”
  • Chechen: “КIайн ЦIа”
  • Chechen: “КӀайн ЦӀа”
  • Cheyenne: “Vo’kome-mâheo’o”
  • Chinese: “Pe̍h Chhù”
  • Chinese: “白宫”
  • Chinese: “白宮”
  • Chinese: “白屋”
  • Chinese: “美国白宫”
  • Chinese: “美國白宮”
  • Chuvash: “Шурă çурт”
  • Corsican: “Casa Bianca”
  • Croatian: “Bijela kuća”
  • Czech: “Bílý dům”
  • Czech: “White House”
  • Danish: “Det Hvide Hus”
  • Danish: “Hvide hus”
  • Dhivehi: “White House”
  • Dhivehi: “ހުދު ގަނޑުވަރު”
  • Dhivehi: “ވައިޓް ހައުސް”
  • Dutch: “The Witte House”
  • Dutch: “Witte Huis”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “البيت الأبيض”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “البيت الابيض”
  • Esperanto: “Blanka Domo”
  • Esperanto: “White House”
  • Estonian: “Valge Maja”
  • Faroese: “Tað hvíta húsið”
  • Finnish: “The White House”
  • Finnish: “Valkoinen talo”
  • Finnish: “White House”
  • French: “Maison Blanche”
  • French: “Maison-Blanche”
  • French: “State Floor”
  • French: “The White House”
  • French: “White House”
  • Fulah: “White House Nazareth”
  • Galician: “Casa Branca”
  • Georgian: “თეთრი სახლი”
  • German: “1600 Pennsylvania Avenue”
  • German: “Weisses Haus”
  • German: “Weißes Haus”
  • German: “White House”
  • Greek: “Λευκός Οίκος”
  • Haitian: “Mezon Blanch”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Pa̍k-kiûng”
  • Hausa: “White House”
  • Hebrew: “בית הלבן”
  • Hebrew: “הבית הלבן”
  • Hindi: “व्हाइट हाउस”
  • Hungarian: “Fehér Ház”
  • Hungarian: “White House”
  • Icelandic: “Hvíta húsið”
  • Icelandic: “The White House”
  • Icelandic: “White House”
  • Ido: “Blanka Domo”
  • Iloko: “Balay a Puraw”
  • Indonesian: “Gedung Putih”
  • Indonesian: “The White House”
  • Indonesian: “White House”
  • Interlingua: “Casa Blanc”
  • Interlingua: “Domo Blanc”
  • Irish: “an Teach Bán”
  • Irish: “An Teach Bán”
  • Italian: “Casa Bianca”
  • Italian: “White House”
  • Japanese: “The White House”
  • Japanese: “White House”
  • Japanese: “アメリカ合衆国大統領府”
  • Japanese: “アメリカ大統領府”
  • Japanese: “ホワイトハウス・コンプレックス”
  • Japanese: “ホワイトハウス”
  • Japanese: “白堊館”
  • Javanese: “Gedhung Putih”
  • Javanese: “Gedung Putih”
  • Kannada: “ವೈಟ್ ಹೌಸ್”
  • Kannada: “ಶ್ವೇತ ಭವನ”
  • Kashmiri: “وائٹ ہاؤس”
  • Kazakh: “Ақ Үй”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Perezidansi y’Amerika”
  • Kinyarwanda: “White House”
  • Kirghiz: “Ак үй”
  • Korean: “백악관”
  • Korean: “화이트하우스”
  • Kurdish: “Koçka Spî”
  • Kurdish: “Qesra Spî”
  • Lao: “ທຳນຽບຂາວ”
  • Latin: “Aedes Albae”
  • Latin: “Domus Alba”
  • Latvian: “Baltais nams”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Casa Blanca”
  • Literary Chinese: “白宮”
  • Lithuanian: “Baltieji rūmai”
  • Lombard: “Cà Bianca”
  • Low German: “Witt Huus”
  • Luxembourgish: “Wäisst Haus”
  • Macedonian: “Белата куќа”
  • Maithili: “व्हाइट हाउस”
  • Maithili: “ह्वाइट हाउस”
  • Malay: “Rumah Putih”
  • Malay: “White House”
  • Malayalam: “White House”
  • Malayalam: “വൈറ്റ് ഹൗസ്”
  • Malayalam: “വൈറ്റ്‌ഹൌസ്”
  • Malayalam: “വൈറ്റ്‌ഹൌസ്‌”
  • Malayalam: “വൈറ്റ്‌ഹൗസ്‌”
  • Manx: “y Thie Bane”
  • Manx: “Y Thie Bane”
  • Marathi: “व्हाइट हाउस”
  • Marathi: “व्हाइट हाऊस”
  • Marathi: “व्हाईट हाउस”
  • Mazanderani: “اسپه کاخ”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Băh Gṳ̆ng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pe̍h Kiong”
  • Mongolian: “Цагаан ордон”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “لبيت لبيض”
  • Narom: “Blianche Maison”
  • Narom: “Blianche Maîson”
  • Narom: “Maisoun bllaunche”
  • Nepali: “ह्वाइट हाउस”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Det hvite hus”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Det kvite hus”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Det kvite huset”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hvite Hus”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kvite hus”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “White house”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Det kvite hus i Washington”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Det kvite hus”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Det kvite huset i Washington D.C.”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Det kvite huset i Washington, D.C.”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Det kvite huset”
  • Norwegian: “Det hvite hus”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ostal Blanc”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ostau Blanc”
  • Ossetian: “Урс хæдзар”
  • Panjabi: “ਵਾਈਟ ਹਾਊਸ”
  • Persian: “کاخ سفید”
  • Picard: “Blanke Moaison”
  • Picard: “Blanke-Moaison”
  • Piemontese: “Ca bianca”
  • Polish: “Biały Dom”
  • Portuguese: “Casa Branca”
  • Portuguese: “White House”
  • Pushto: “سپينه ماڼۍ”
  • Romanian: “Casa Albă”
  • Romanian: “White House”
  • Russian: “White House”
  • Russian: “Белый дом”
  • Scots: “White Hoose”
  • Scots: “White House”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “An Taigh Geal”
  • Serbian: “White House”
  • Serbian: “Бела кућа”
  • Serbian: “Бијела кућа”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bela kuća”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bijela kuća”
  • Sicilian: “Casa Bianca”
  • Sicilian: “Casa Janca”
  • Sinhala: “ධවල මන්දිරය”
  • Slovak: “Biely dom”
  • Slovenian: “1600 Pennsylvania Avenue”
  • Slovenian: “Bela hiša”
  • Slovenian: “White House”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آغ ائو”
  • Spanish: “Casa Blanca”
  • Spanish: “La Casa Blanca”
  • Spanish: “mansión exclusiva”
  • Spanish: “The White House”
  • Spanish: “White House”
  • Swedish: “The White House”
  • Swedish: “Vita huset”
  • Swedish: “White House”
  • Tagalog: “White House”
  • Tajik: “Кохи Сафед”
  • Tamil: “வெள்ளை மாளிகை”
  • Tatar: “Ак йорт”
  • Telugu: “వైట్ హౌజ్”
  • Telugu: “వైట్ హౌస్”
  • Telugu: “శ్వేత సౌధం”
  • Thai: “ทำเนียบขาว”
  • Thai: “ไวต์เฮาส์”
  • Thai: “ไวท์เฮาส์”
  • Turkish: “Beyaz Saray”
  • Turkish: “The White House”
  • Turkish: “White House”
  • Turkmen: “Ak Saraý”
  • Uighur: “ئاقساراي”
  • Ukrainian: “Білий дім”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Běły dom”
  • Upper Sorbian: “White House”
  • Urdu: “قصر سفید”
  • Urdu: “وائٹ ہاؤس”
  • Uzbek: “Oq uy”
  • Uzbek: “Oq Uy”
  • Venetian: “Caza Bianca”
  • Veps: “Vauged Pert‘”
  • Veps: “Vauged Pert’”
  • Veps: “Vaugedpert‘”
  • Vietnamese: “Bạch Ốc”
  • Vietnamese: “Nhà Trắng”
  • Vietnamese: “Toà Bạch Ốc”
  • Vietnamese: “Tòa Bạch ốc”
  • Vietnamese: “Tòa Bạch Ốc”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Busag nga Balay”
  • Waray (Philippines): “White House”
  • Welsh: “The White House”
  • Welsh: “Ty Gwyn”
  • Welsh: “Tŷ Gwyn”
  • Welsh: “White House”
  • Welsh: “Y Ty Gwyn”
  • Welsh: “y Tŷ Gwyn”
  • Welsh: “Y Tŷ Gwyn”
  • Western Armenian: “Սպիտակ Տուն”
  • Western Frisian: “Wite Hûs”
  • Western Panjabi: “وائٹ ہاؤس”
  • Wu Chinese: “白宫”
  • Wu Chinese: “白屋”
  • Yiddish: “די ווייסע הויז”
  • Yiddish: “ווייט האוז”
  • Yiddish: “ווייסן הויז”
  • Yiddish: “ווייסע הויז”
  • Yiddish: “ווייסען הויז”
  • Yoruba: “The White House”
  • Yoruba: “White House”
  • Yue Chinese: “White House”
  • Yue Chinese: “白宮”
  • Zeeuws: “Witte ‘uus”
  • Zeeuws: “Witte ’Uus”
  • “व्हाइट हाउस”

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