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Germantown

Germantown is an urbanized census-designated place in , United States. With a population of 91,249 as of the 2020 census, it is the third-most populous community in Maryland, after and .
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  • Type: Town with 91,200 residents
  • Description: census-designated place in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States
  • Also known as: “Germantown, Maryland” and “Germantown, MD”
  • Postal codes: 20874-20876

Places of Interest

Highlights include Germantown station and BlackRock Center for the Arts.

Railway station
Photo: Mitchazenia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Germantown is a passenger rail station on the MARC Brunswick Line between Washington, D.C., and Martinsburg, West Virginia. It is one of the busiest stations on the Brunswick Line along with Silver Spring and Rockville stations.

Arts center
The , officially the Germantown Cultural Arts Center, is a cultural, visual and performing arts center in Germantown, Maryland. The center is named after the nearby historic Blackrock Mill.

Library
Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Montgomery Village and Clarksburg.

Town
Photo: Farragutful, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a census-designated place in , , United States, and a northern suburb of It is a large, planned suburban community, developed in the late 1960s and 1970s just outside 's city limits. is situated 3½ miles east of Germantown.

Town
Photo: Thisisbossi, CC BY-SA 2.5.
is a census-designated place and an unincorporated area in northern , , United States. It is located at the northern end of the Interstate 270 technology corridor, approximately four miles north of Germantown. is situated 3½ miles north of Germantown.

Hamlet
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is an unincorporated community in exurban , , United States, located approximately 27 miles north of Its ZIP Code is 20841. is situated 2½ miles west of Germantown.

Germantown

Latitude
39.1813° or 39° 10′ 53″ north
Longitude
-77.2666° or 77° 15′ 60″ west
Population
91,200
Elevation
440 feet (134 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US GTN
Open location code
87F45PJM+G8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158476529
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4356050
Wiki­data ID
Q755901
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Uzbek—“Germantown” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جيرمانتاون”
  • Basque: “Germantown”
  • Belarusian: “Джэрмантаўн”
  • Bulgarian: “Джърмантаун”
  • Catalan: “Germantown”
  • Cebuano: “Germantown”
  • Chinese: “Germantown”
  • Chinese: “日耳曼墩”
  • Chinese: “日耳曼敦”
  • Chinese: “日耳曼鎮（Germantown）”
  • Chinese: “日耳曼鎮”
  • Chinese: “日耳曼镇”
  • Dutch: “Germantown”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جيرمانتاون, ميريلاند”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جيرمانتاون”
  • Finnish: “Germantown”
  • French: “Germantown”
  • German: “Germantown”
  • Gilaki: “جرمن‌تاؤن (مريلند)”
  • Gilaki: “جرمن‌تاؤن”
  • Hebrew: “גרמנטאון”
  • Irish: “Germantown”
  • Italian: “Germantown”
  • Japanese: “ジャーマンタウン”
  • Kazakh: “Djermantawn”
  • Kazakh: “Джермантаун”
  • Kazakh: “دجەرمانتاۋن”
  • Kirghiz: “Джермантаун”
  • Ladin: “Germantown”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Germantown”
  • Persian: “جرمنتاون، مریلند”
  • Persian: “جرمنتاون”
  • Polish: “Germantown”
  • Portuguese: “Germantown”
  • Russian: “Германтаун (Мэриленд)”
  • Russian: “Джермантаун”
  • Serbian: “Џермантаун”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Germantown, Maryland”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Germantown”
  • Slovak: “Germantown”
  • Slovenian: “Germantown”
  • South Azerbaijani: “جرمانتوون، مریلند”
  • Spanish: “Germantown (Maryland)”
  • Spanish: “Germantown”
  • Swedish: “Germantown”
  • Tatar: “Джермантаун (Мэриленд)”
  • Tatar: “Джермантаун”
  • Turkish: “Germantown, Maryland”
  • Turkish: “Germantown”
  • Ukrainian: “Германтаун”
  • Ukrainian: “Джермантаун”
  • Urdu: “جرمن ٹاؤن، مونٹگمری کاؤنٹی، میری لینڈ”
  • Uzbek: “Germantown, Montgomery County”
  • Uzbek: “Germantown”
  • Uzbek: “Германтоwн”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Germantown”. Photo: Illegitimate Barrister, CC BY-SA 3.0.