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Frederick
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city in Frederick County, Maryland, United States
Frederick is a city located in Frederick County, Maryland. It serves as an important regional center in the state's geography and community structure.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county seat
- Official name
- Frederick
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Frederick County
- Population
- 78171
- Area
- 57.487758
- Elevation
- 92
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Capital of
- Frederick County
- Shares border with
- Thurmont
- Official website
- www.cityoffrederick.com
- Image
- Frederick City Hall Aerial.jpg
- Households
- 28754
- Dialing code
- 301
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- twinned administrative body
- Landau in der Pfalz
- Commons category
- Frederick, Maryland
- postal code
- 21709
- inception
- 1745-01-01
- topic's main category
- Category:Frederick, Maryland
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Frederick, Maryland
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Frederick, Maryland
- P8168
- MHA
- water as percent of area
- 0.927
- native label
- Frederick
- different from
- Frederick
- per capita income
- 39218
- located in the statistical territorial entity
- Washington metropolitan area
- described by source
- New International Encyclopedia
- number of viewers/listeners
- 1879603
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Encyclopedic overview
Frederick is a city in and the county seat of Frederick County, Maryland, United States. Frederick's population was 78,171 people as of the 2020 census, making it the second-largest incorporated city in Maryland behind Baltimore. It is a part of the Washington metropolitan area and the greater Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area.
The city is located at an important crossroads at the intersection of a major north–south Native American trail and east–west routes to the Chesapeake Bay, both at Baltimore and what became Washington, D.C., and across the Appalachian Mountains to the Ohio River watershed.
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