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United States Capitol

The United States Capitol, often called the Capitol or the Capitol Building, is the seat of the United States Congress, the legislative branch of the federal government.
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  • Opening hours: Monday—Saturday 8:30 AM—4:30 PM
  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: meeting place of the United States Congress
  • Also known as: “Capitol”, “Capitol building”, “Capitol Building”, “Congress House”, “Federal House”, “Punchbowl”, “The Capitol”, “U S Capitol”, “U.S. Capitol”, “U.S. Capitol Building”, “United States Capitol building”, “US Capitol”, and “US Capitol Building”
  • Address: First Street Southeast, Washington, DC 20004
  • Wheelchair access: yes
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include National Mall and Statue of Freedom.

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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.

Work of art
The , also known as Armed Freedom or simply Freedom, is a bronze designed by Thomas Crawford that, since 1863, has crowned the United States Capitol dome.

Tourism office
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The United States Capitol Visitor Center is a large underground addition to the United States Capitol complex which serves as a gathering point for up to 4,000 tourists and an expansion space for the U.S. is situated 420 feet east of United States Capitol.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Capitol Hill and East End.

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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.

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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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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.

United States Capitol

Latitude
38.88981° or 38° 53′ 23″ north
Longitude
-77.00895° or 77° 0′ 32″ west
Elevation
82 feet (25 metres)
Inception
1800
Levels
3
Height
287 feet (88 metres)
Open location code
87C4VXQR+WC
Open­Street­Map ID
way 66418809
Open­Street­Map feature
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Geo­Names ID
4140827
Wiki­data ID
Q54109
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“United States Capitol” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Capitol”
  • Albanian: “Kapitoli i Shteteve të Bashkuara”
  • Albanian: “Kapitoli”
  • Arabic: “كابيتول الولايات المتحدة”
  • Arabic: “مبنى الكونغرس الأمريكي”
  • Armenian: “Կապիտոլիում”
  • Asturian: “Capitoliu de los Estaos Xuníos”
  • Azerbaijani: “ABŞ kapitolu”
  • Azerbaijani: “ABŞ Konqres Binası”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kapitol”
  • Basque: “Ameriketako Estatu Batuetako Kapitolioa”
  • Belarusian: “Капітолій, Вашынгтон”
  • Belarusian: “Капітолій”
  • Belarusian: “Капітоліюм”
  • Bengali: “ইউনাইটেড স্টেটস ক্যাপিটল”
  • Bosnian: “Kapitol Sjedinjenih Američkih Država”
  • Breton: “Kapitol ar Stadoù-Unanet”
  • Bulgarian: “Капитолий”
  • Burmese: “အမေရိကန်ပြည်ထောင်စု ကာပီတယ်လ်”
  • Catalan: “Capitoli dels Estats Units”
  • Chinese: “美国国会大厦”
  • Chinese: “美國國會大廈”
  • Corsican: “Campidogliu di i Stati Uniti”
  • Corsican: “Campidogliu di i SU”
  • Corsican: “Campidogliu”
  • Czech: “Kapitol Spojených států amerických”
  • Danish: “United States Capitol”
  • Dutch: “Capitool (Washington)”
  • Dutch: “Capitool”
  • Esperanto: “Kapitolo de Usono”
  • Estonian: “Kapitoolium”
  • Finnish: “United States Capitol”
  • Finnish: “Yhdysvaltain kongressitalo”
  • French: “Capitole des États-Unis”
  • French: “Capitole”
  • Galician: “Capitolio dos Estados Unidos”
  • Georgian: “კაპიტოლიუმი”
  • German: “Kapitol der Vereinigten Staaten”
  • German: “Kapitol”
  • Greek: “Καπιτώλιο των Ηνωμένων Πολιτειών”
  • Hebrew: “הקפיטול”
  • Hindi: “संयुक्त राज्य अमेरिका का संसदभवन”
  • Hungarian: “Az Amerikai Egyesült Államok Capitoliuma”
  • Hungarian: “az Egyesült Államok Capitoliuma”
  • Hungarian: “Az Egyesült Államok Capitoliuma”
  • Hungarian: “Capitolium”
  • Indonesian: “Gedung Capitol”
  • Indonesian: “Gedung Kapitol”
  • Irish: “an Caipeatól”
  • Irish: “Caipeatól na Stát Aontaithe”
  • Italian: “Campidoglio degli Stati Uniti d’America”
  • Italian: “Campidoglio degli Stati Uniti”
  • Italian: “Campidoglio”
  • Japanese: “アメリカ合衆国議会議事堂”
  • Javanese: “Gedhung Capitol”
  • Kazakh: “Капитолий (Вашингтон)”
  • Kazakh: “Капитолий”
  • Korean: “미국 국회의사당”
  • Korean: “미국 의회의사당”
  • Latin: “Capitolium Civitatum Foederatarum”
  • Latvian: “ASV Kapitolijs”
  • Lithuanian: “Jungtinių Valstijų Kapitolijus”
  • Macedonian: “Капитол”
  • Malay: “Kapitol Amerika Syarikat”
  • Malayalam: “കാപിറ്റോൾ മന്ദിരം”
  • Malayalam: “യുണൈറ്റഡ്‌ സ്റ്റേറ്റ്‌സ്‌ കാപിറ്റോൾ”
  • Malayalam: “സ്റ്റേറ്റ്‌സ്‌& കാപിറ്റോൾ”
  • Manx: “Thie Ard-whaiyl ny Steatyn Unnaneysit”
  • Marathi: “अमेरिकन कॅपिटल”
  • Mingrelian: “კაპიტოლიუმი”
  • Nepali: “अमेरिकी क्यापिटल”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “United States Capitol”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Capitol”
  • Norwegian: “United States Capitol”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Capitòli dels Estats Units”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Unitegan Statum Capitole”
  • Panjabi: “ਸੰਯੁਕਤ ਰਾਜ ਕੈਪੀਟਲ”
  • Persian: “کاخ کنگره آمریکا”
  • Persian: “کاخ کنگره”
  • Polish: “Kapitol Stanów Zjednoczonych”
  • Polish: “United States Capitol”
  • Portuguese: “Capitólio dos Estados Unidos”
  • Romanian: “Capitoliul Statelor Unite ale Americii”
  • Russian: “Капитолий”
  • Scots: “Caipitol o the Unitit States”
  • Scots: “U.S. Caipitol”
  • Scots: “Unitit States Caipitol”
  • Scots: “Unitit States Capitol”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Capitol nan Stàitean Aonaichte”
  • Serbian: “Капитол Сједињених Америчких Држава”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kapitol Sjedinjenih Američkih Država”
  • Sinhala: “එක්සත් ජනපද කැපිටල් ගොඩනැගිල්ල”
  • Slovak: “Kapitol (sídlo kongresu)”
  • Slovak: “Kapitol”
  • Slovenian: “Kapitol ZDA”
  • Slovenian: “Kapitol Združenih držav Amerike”
  • Slovenian: “Kapitol”
  • Spanish: “Capitolio de Estados Unidos”
  • Spanish: “Capitolio de los Estados Unidos”
  • Swedish: “Kapitolium”
  • Tagalog: “Kapitolyo ng Estados Unidos”
  • Tamil: “அமெரிக்க ஐக்கிய நாட்டு மாமன்றம்”
  • Tamil: “ஐக்கிய அமெரிக்க சட்டமன்றக் கட்டிடம்”
  • Thai: “อาคารรัฐสภาสหรัฐ”
  • Thai: “อาคารรัฐสภาสหรัฐอเมริกา”
  • Turkish: “Amerikan Kongre Binası”
  • Ukrainian: “Капітолій”
  • Urdu: “ریاستہائے متحدہ کیپٹل”
  • Uzbek: “Kapitoliy binosi”
  • Venetian: “Canpidojo”
  • Venetian: “Capitol”
  • Vietnamese: “Điện Capitol Hoa Kì”
  • Vietnamese: “Điện Capitol Hoa Kỳ”
  • Vietnamese: “Toà Quốc hội Hoa Kì”
  • Vietnamese: “Tòa Quốc hội Hoa Kì”
  • Vietnamese: “Toà Quốc hội Hoa Kỳ”
  • Vietnamese: “Tòa Quốc hội Hoa Kỳ”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kapitolyo han Estados Unidos”
  • Welsh: “Capitol yr Unol Daleithiau”
  • Western Panjabi: “یونائیٹڈ سٹیٹس کیپیٹل”
  • Wu Chinese: “美国国会大厦”
  • Yue Chinese: “美國國會大廈”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Capitol Hill and Penn Quarter.

Nearby Places

Explore places such as Capitol Hill Fountain and Gatehouse.

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