Maryland
Capital Region
Prince George’s County

Fort Washington

Fort Washington is an unincorporated area and census-designated place in , , United States. It borders the , situated 20 miles south of downtown Washington, D.C.
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  • Type: Town with 24,300 residents
  • Description: unincorporated community in Prince George’s County, Maryland, United States
  • Also known as: “Fort Warburton”, “Fort Washington Estates”, “Fort Washington, Maryland”, “Fort Washington, MD”, and “Ft. Washington”
  • Postal codes: 20744 and 20749

Places of Interest

Highlights include Potomac Airfield and Saint Johns Church.

Aerodrome
, also known as Potomac Airport, a privately owned, public-use located in the in unincorporated , , ; it has a Fort Washington postal address. is situated 2½ miles northeast of Fort Washington.

Church
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St. John's Church, St. John's Episcopal Church, or St. John's Episcopal Church, Broad Creek, is a historic Episcopal church located at 9801 Livingston Road in Fort Washington, . is situated 2 miles north of Fort Washington.

School
is a public high school in in unincorporated , a county in the state of in the United States; it has a Fort Washington postal address. is situated 2 miles northeast of Fort Washington.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Friendly and Fort Hunt.

Village
is an unincorporated area and census-designated place in , , United States, with an African-American majority population, located a few miles south of The population was 9,937 at the 2020 census.

Village
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is a census-designated place in , , United States. The area is named after , which was built on the bank of the in 1897 to defend from naval attack and is now a public park. is situated 3½ miles west of Fort Washington.

Hamlet
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is an unincorporated community in , , United States. It is one of the oldest European-colonized communities in the state.

Fort Washington

Latitude
38.7255° or 38° 43′ 32″ north
Longitude
-76.99° or 76° 59′ 24″ west
Population
24,300
Elevation
105 feet (32 metres)
Abbreviation
“Ft. Washington”
United Nations Location Code
US FWY
Open location code
87C5P2G5+5X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158621061
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4355355
Wiki­data ID
Q754010
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Volapük—“Fort Washington” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “فورت واشنطن”
  • Belarusian: “Форт Вашынгтон”
  • Bulgarian: “Форт Вашингтон”
  • Catalan: “Fort Washington”
  • Cebuano: “Fort Washington”
  • Chinese: “Fort Washington”
  • Chinese: “華盛頓堡（馬里蘭州）”
  • Chinese: “華盛頓堡”
  • Danish: “Fort Washington”
  • Dutch: “Fort Washington”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “حصن واشنطن”
  • French: “Fort Washington”
  • German: “Fort Washington (Maryland)”
  • German: “Fort Washington”
  • Gilaki: “فؤرت واشينگتن (مريلند)”
  • Gilaki: “فؤرت واشينگتن”
  • Greek: “Φορτ Ουάσινγκτον”
  • Hebrew: “פורט וושינגטון”
  • Hungarian: “Fort Washington”
  • Irish: “Fort Washington”
  • Italian: “Fort Washington”
  • Japanese: “フォート・ワシントン”
  • Kazakh: “Fort Vaşïngton”
  • Kazakh: “Форт Вашингтон”
  • Kazakh: “فورت ۆاشىينگتون”
  • Kirghiz: “Форт Вашингтон”
  • Ladin: “Fort Washington”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Fort Washington”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Fort Washington”
  • Persian: “فرت واشینگتن، مریلند”
  • Persian: “فورت واشنگتن”
  • Persian: “فورت واشینگتن، مریلند”
  • Polish: “Fort Washington”
  • Portuguese: “Fort Washington”
  • Russian: “Форт-Вашингтон”
  • Serbian: “Форт Вошингтон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Fort Washington, Maryland”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Fort Washington”
  • Slovenian: “Fort Washington”
  • Spanish: “Fort Washington (Maryland)”
  • Spanish: “Fort Washington”
  • Swedish: “Fort Washington”
  • Tatar: “Форт-Вашингтон (Мэриленд)”
  • Tatar: “Форт-Вашингтон”
  • Ukrainian: “Форт-Вашингтон”
  • Urdu: “فورٹ واشنگٹن، میری لینڈ”
  • Uzbek: “Fort Washington”
  • Uzbek: “Форт Wашингтон”
  • Volapük: “Fort Washington”

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