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College Park
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city in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Maryland
- County
- Prince George's
- Named after
- Proximity to a state college
- Type
- Council–manager
- Mayor
- S.M. Fazlul Kabir
- Total
- 5.68 sq mi (14.72 km )
- Land
- 5.61 sq mi (14.53 km )
- Water
- 0.069 sq mi (0.18 km )
- Elevation
- 69 ft (21 m)
- Density
- 6,191.0/sq mi (2,390.37/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( EST )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Zip codes
- 20740–20742
- Area code
- 301, 240
- Fips code
- 24-18750
- Website
- www.collegeparkmd.gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- College Park
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Prince George's County
- Population
- 34740
- Area
- 14.693709
- Elevation
- 21
- Time zone
- UTC−04:00
- Shares border with
- University Park
- Official website
- www.collegeparkmd.gov
- Image
- Downtown.jpg
- Households
- 7620
- Dialing code
- 240
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- postal code
- 20741
- topic's main category
- Category:College Park, Maryland
- Commons category
- College Park, Maryland
- inception
- 1856-00-00
- category of associated people
- Category:People from College Park, Maryland
- different from
- College Park
- native label
- College Park
- social media followers
- 2216
- P8168
- Asyvvozh
- water as percent of area
- 0.6538
- per capita income
- 24665
- P12749
- VNR
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Encyclopedic overview
College Park is a city in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, located approximately four miles (6.4 km) from the northeast border of Washington, D.C. Its population was 34,740 at the 2020 United States census. It is the home of the University of Maryland, College Park.
College Park is also home to federal agencies such as the National Archives at College Park (Archives II), NOAA's Weather Prediction Center, and the FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, as well as tech companies such as IonQ (quantum computing) or Cybrary (cyber security).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “College Park” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.