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National Mall

The National Mall, 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.
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  • Type: Park
  • Description: national park in Washington, D.C.
  • Also known as: “Downings Mall”, “Murderers Row”, “National Mall Historic District”, “The Commons”, “The Mall”, “The Malle”, and “The National Mall”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Washington Monument and National Gallery of Art.

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The is a 555-foot tall obelisk on the National Mall in , built to commemorate George Washington, a Founding Father of the United States and the nation's first president.

Museum
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The is an art museum in , United States, located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW.

Museum
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The is a natural history museum administered by the , located on the National Mall in , United States.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include East End and Waterfront.

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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.

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The is just south of the National Mall. In addition to beautiful views of the Washington Channel, which separates the parkland on Hains Point with the land contiguous with the National Mall, this neighborhood includes great seafood, restaurants, bars, sports stadiums, entertainment options and boat excursions.

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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.

National Mall

Latitude
38.88962° or 38° 53′ 23″ north
Longitude
-77.02357° or 77° 1′ 25″ west
Open location code
87C4VXQG+RH
Open­Street­Map ID
way 894298547
Open­Street­Map feature
leisure=­park
Geo­Names ID
7287690
Wiki­data ID
Q465811
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“National Mall” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ناشونال مول”
  • Arabic: “ناشيونال مول”
  • Azerbaijani: “National Mall”
  • Bashkir: “Милли Молл”
  • Basque: “National Mall”
  • Belarusian: “Нацыянальная алея”
  • Catalan: “National Mall”
  • Cebuano: “National Mall”
  • Chinese: “国家广场”
  • Chinese: “國家廣場”
  • Chinese: “美国国家广场”
  • Danish: “National Mall”
  • Dutch: “National Mall”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ناشونال مول”
  • Esperanto: “National Mall”
  • Estonian: “National Mall”
  • Finnish: “National Mall”
  • Finnish: “Washington Mall”
  • French: “Le Mall”
  • French: “National Mall”
  • German: “National Mall”
  • Greek: “Νάσιοναλ Μολ”
  • Hebrew: “המול”
  • Hungarian: “National Mall”
  • Indonesian: “National Mall”
  • Italian: “National Mall”
  • Japanese: “ナショナル・モール”
  • Japanese: “ナショナルモール”
  • Japanese: “モール地区”
  • Kazakh: “Ұлттық Алаң”
  • Korean: “내셔널 몰”
  • Korean: “내셔널몰”
  • Latvian: “Nacionālā aleja”
  • Lithuanian: “JAV nacionalinė alėja”
  • Lithuanian: “Nacionalinė alėja”
  • Lithuanian: “National Mall”
  • Macedonian: “Национална алеја”
  • Malay: “National Mall”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “National Mall”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “The National Mall”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “National Mall”
  • Norwegian: “National Mall”
  • Persian: “پارک ملی”
  • Persian: “نشنال مال”
  • Polish: “National Mall”
  • Polish: “Park Narodowy National Mall”
  • Portuguese: “National Mall”
  • Portuguese: “The National Mall”
  • Russian: “National Mall”
  • Russian: “Национальная аллея”
  • Slovenian: “National Mall”
  • Spanish: “National Mall”
  • Swedish: “National Mall”
  • Swedish: “The National Mall”
  • Turkish: “National Mall”
  • Ukrainian: “Національна алея”
  • Urdu: “نیشنل مال”
  • Vietnamese: “National Mall”
  • Western Frisian: “National Mall”
  • Western Panjabi: “نیشنل مال”
  • Yue Chinese: “國家廣場”
  • “National Mall”

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