Welcome to Washington.DC.

Welcome to Washington D.C.

Washington is the capital of the country, it’s not in any state in the United States.

It is District of Columbia.

The city stands on the Potomac river and is bordered by the state of Maryland to the North and Virginia to the South.

The place for the capital was chosen by George Washington , the first US president, and the city was called after him.

Washington is the home of all the government institutions for the whole country :

• Congress
• The Supreme Court
• The White House

Capitol Hill (It’s the tallest building and laws are passed there)

Supreme Court ( this is where the laws are interpreted by the highest judges in the USA )

White house (All the presidents of the US have lived there)

But George

Washington never

lived in the White

House

Today The White House has 6 floors, 132 rooms, 32 bathrooms, 147 windows and 412 doors.

The tallest

monument in the

US Capital is the

Washington

monument

This four-sided stone structure looks

like an Egyptian obelisk. It honours

the “Father of the Country” , General,

and the first President of the USA

George Washington.

Jefferson Memorial

Do you know who Thomas Jefferson was?

Thomas Jefferson

was the third

President of the

US.

He wrote the

Declaration of

Independence

Lincoln memorial

What do you know about Abraham Lincoln?

Abraham Lincoln was

the sixteenth

President of the US

and he wrote the

Emancipation

Proclamation

There are a lot green

here, so many parks

and lawns.

Washington is a very

clean city, because

government is the

city’s only

industry, and the

level

of pollution is quite

low.

In the evenings the whole city turns into a big fitness club. Everywhere you can see people playing football or volleyball, jogging or riding their bikes.

With over a dozen Smithsonian Museums in Washington DC, one of the most interesting is the Smithsonian Institution Building (Castle)