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Anacostia

Anacostia is the popular name for the huge swathe of consisting of the many neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River. Its heart, in the small, historic neighborhood of Anacostia, is immediately across the Frederick Douglass Bridge from the Nationals Ballpark.
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Photo: Ron Coggswell, CC BY 2.0.
  • Type: Suburb with 11,800 residents
  • Description: neighborhood in Washington, D.C.
  • Also known as: “Frederick Subdivision”, “Griswold Subdivision”, “Nacotchtanke”, “Old Uniontown”, “Union Town”, and “Uniontown”

Places of Interest

Highlights include America’s Islamic Heritage Museum and Frederick Douglass National Historic Site.

Museum
The America's Islamic Heritage Museum is a history museum located in Washington, DC, United States. It is a non-profit organization that displays a variety of Islamic artifacts, photographs, and stories dating from the 16th century up to the 21st century.

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The , administered by the National Park Service, is located at 1411 W Street, SE, in Anacostia, a neighborhood east of the Anacostia River in Southeast United States.

Library
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Anacostia Neighborhood Library is part of the District of Columbia Public Library System. It was opened to the public in 1942.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fairlawn and Garfield Heights.

Neighborhood
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is a working class and middle class residential neighborhood in southeast , United States. It is bounded by Interstate 295, Pennsylvania Avenue SE, Minnesota Avenue SE, Naylor Road SE, and Good Hope Road SE.

Neighborhood
is a residential neighborhood in Southeast Washington, D.C. bounded by Suitland Parkway SE, Alabama Avenue SE, 28th Street SE, Gainesville Street SE, Naylor Road SE, and Southern Avenue SE.

Neighborhood
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Neighborhoods in , the capital city of the , are distinguished by their history, culture, architecture, demographics, and geography.

Anacostia

Latitude
38.86544° or 38° 51′ 56″ north
Longitude
-76.98425° or 76° 59′ 3″ west
Population
11,800
Elevation
43 feet (13 metres)
IATA airport code
NDV
United Nations Location Code
US NDV
Open location code
87C5V288+57
Open­Street­Map ID
node 157621768
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
4137523
Wiki­data ID
Q4579829
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Urdu—“Anacostia” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Anacostia”
  • Chinese: “阿納科斯蒂亞”
  • Chinese: “阿纳科斯蒂亚”
  • Dutch: “Anacostia”
  • Finnish: “Anacostia”
  • French: “Anacostia”
  • Hebrew: “אנאקוסטיה”
  • Japanese: “アナコスティア”
  • Japanese: “アナスコティア”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Anacostia”
  • Norwegian: “Anacostia”
  • Portuguese: “Anacostia”
  • Russian: “Анакостия”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Anacostia”
  • Slovenian: “Anacostia”
  • Spanish: “Anacostia”
  • Urdu: “ایناکوسٹیا”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Anacostia”. Photo: Ron Coggswell, CC BY 2.0.