Silver Spring
Silver Spring is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Maryland. It is considered to be an "edge city". It sits next door to Washington, DC, and had about 82,000 residents in 2018.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Farragutful, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Farragutful, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 71,500 residents
- Description: community in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States
- Also known as: “Silver Spring, Maryland”, “Silver Spring, MD”, and “Silver Spring, Md.”
- Postal codes: 20901-20908, 20910, 20911, 20914-20916, 20918, and 20997
- Neighbors: Takoma Park and Washington, D.C.
Places of Interest
Highlights include National Museum of Health and Medicine and Silver Spring station.
National Museum of Health and Medicine
Museum
The National Museum of Health and Medicine is a museum in Silver Spring, Maryland, near Washington, D.C. The museum was founded by U.S. Army Surgeon General William A.
Silver Spring station
Historic building
Photo: Farragutful, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Silver Spring station is a former train station on the Metropolitan Subdivision in Silver Spring in Montgomery County, Maryland. It was built in 1945 by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad on the foundation of a previous station, a Victorian-style brick structure built in 1878.
AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center
Movie theater
Photo: Kate Mereand, CC BY 2.0.
AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center is a three-screen movie theater complex in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, north of Washington, D.C. It is operated by the American Film Institute.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Takoma Park and Brookland-Petworth-Takoma.
Takoma Park
Photo: Farragutful, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Takoma Park is a city of 18,000 people in Montgomery County, Maryland. It is a suburb of Washington D.C. Takoma Park is known for its Bohemian atmosphere and progressiveness, and has been called the "Berkeley of the East" and "The People's Republic of Takoma Park."…
Brookland-Petworth-Takoma
Brookland, Petworth, and Takoma are three relatively quiet neighborhoods east of Rock Creek Park. Following the "White Flight" after desegregation and the 1968 riots, these neighborhoods were left underpopulated, overwhelmingly African-American, and much less wealthy than the Upper Northwest, just across Rock Creek Park.Kensington
Photo: Caseyjonz, Public domain.
Kensington is a suburb of Washington, D.C. in the Capital Region of Maryland with a population of about 2,100 people in 2020. The main reasons to visit are antique shopping at Antique Row, to see the enormous Mormon Temple, and one great pizza place.
Silver Spring
Latitude
38.9959° or 38° 59′ 45″ northLongitude
-77.0276° or 77° 1′ 39″ westPopulation
71,500Elevation
341 feet (104 metres)United Nations Location Code
US SISOpen location code
87C4XXWC+9XOpenStreetMap ID
node 158521614OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Silver Spring” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سيلفر سبرينغ”
- Aragonese: “Silver Spring”
- Armenian: “Սիլվեր Սփրինգ”
- Azerbaijani: “Silver-Sprinq”
- Basque: “Silver Spring”
- Belarusian: “Сілвер-Спрынг”
- Bengali: “সিল্ভার স্প্রিং”
- Bulgarian: “Силвър Спринг”
- Catalan: “Silver Spring”
- Cebuano: “Silver Spring”
- Chinese: “Silver Spring”
- Chinese: “銀泉”
- Chinese: “银泉”
- Czech: “Silver Spring”
- Dagbani: “Silver Spring”
- Danish: “Silver Spring, Maryland”
- Danish: “Silver Spring”
- Dutch: “Silver Spring”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سيلفر سبرينج”
- Esperanto: “Arĝenta Fonto”
- Esperanto: “Silver Spring”
- Finnish: “Silver Spring”
- French: “Silver Spring”
- Galician: “Silver Spring”
- Georgian: “სილვერ-სპრინგი”
- German: “Silver Spring, MD”
- German: “Silver Spring”
- Gilaki: “سيلور اسپرينگ (مريلند)”
- Gilaki: “سيلور اسپرينگ”
- Greek: “Σίλβερ Σπρινγκ”
- Gujarati: “સિલ્વર સ્પ્રિંગ”
- Hebrew: “סילבר ספרינג”
- Hebrew: “סילוור ספרינג”
- Hindi: “सिल्वर स्प्रिंग”
- Hungarian: “Silver Spring”
- Indonesian: “Silver Spring”
- Irish: “Silver Spring”
- Italian: “Silver Spring”
- Japanese: “シルヴァー・スプリング”
- Japanese: “シルバースプリング (メリーランド州)”
- Japanese: “シルバースプリング”
- Kannada: “ಸಿಲ್ವ ರ್ ಸ್ಪ್ರಿಂಗ್”
- Kazakh: “Sïlvér Sprïng”
- Kazakh: “Силвэр Спринг”
- Kazakh: “سىيلۆەر سپرىينگ”
- Kirghiz: “Силвэр Спринг”
- Korean: “실버스프링”
- Ladin: “Silver Spring”
- Latin: “Fons Argenteus”
- Latin: “Scaturgo Argentaea”
- Latin: “Scaturigo Argentea”
- Latvian: “Silverpringa”
- Lithuanian: “Silver Springsas”
- Luxembourgish: “Silver Spring”
- Malay: “Silver Spring”
- Malayalam: “സിൽവർ സ്പ്രിംഗ്”
- Marathi: “सिल्व्हर स्प्रिंग”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Silver Spring”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Silver Spring”
- Norwegian: “Silver Spring”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Silver Spring”
- Persian: “سیلور اسپرینگ، مریلند”
- Persian: “سیلور اسپرینگ”
- Polish: “Silver Spring”
- Portuguese: “Silver Spring”
- Russian: “Силвер-Спринг”
- Serbian: “Силвер Спринг”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Silver Spring, Maryland”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Silver Spring”
- Sinhala: “සිල්වර් ස්ප්රින්ග්”
- Slovenian: “Silver Spring”
- South Azerbaijani: “سیلور ایسپرینق، مریلند”
- Spanish: “Silver Spring (Maryland)”
- Spanish: “Silver Spring”
- Swedish: “Silver Spring”
- Tagalog: “Silver Spring”
- Tamil: “சில்வர் ஸ்ப்ரிங்”
- Tatar: “Силвер-Спринг”
- Telugu: “సిల్వర్ స్ప్రింగ్”
- Thai: “ซิลเวอร์สปริง”
- Turkish: “Silver Spring”
- Ukrainian: “Сілвер-Спринг”
- Ukrainian: “Сілвер-Спрінг”
- Urdu: “سلور سپرنگ، میری لینڈ”
- Uzbek: “Silver Spring”
- Uzbek: “Силвер Спринг”
- Vietnamese: “Silver Spring”
- Volapük: “Silver Spring”
- Welsh: “Silver Spring”
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