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Washington County
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county in Maryland, United States
Washington County is a county located in Maryland in the United States. It matters as one of Maryland's administrative divisions and serves as an important part of the state's local government structure.
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- Population
- 154705
- Area
- 467
- Official website
- www.washco-md.net
- Image
- Burnsidebridge.jpg
- Households
- 56367
- Dialing code
- 240
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- Commons category
- Washington County, Maryland
- water as percent of area
- 2
- native label
- Washington County
- inception
- 1776-00-00
- social media followers
- 3454
- official map URL
- www.washco-md.net/gis-home/gis-digital-spatial-data-maps
- per capita income
- 31525
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Washington County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland. The population was 154,705 as of the 2020 census. Its county seat and largest city is Hagerstown. The county is part of the Western Maryland region of the state.
Washington County was the first county in the United States to be named for the Revolutionary War general (and later President) George Washington. Washington County is one of three Maryland counties recognized by the Appalachian Regional Commission as being part of Appalachia. The county borders southern Pennsylvania to the north, Northern Virginia to the south, and the Martinsburg Panhandle of West Virginia to the south and west. Washington County is included in the Hagerstown metropolitan area, which is also included in the Washington metropolitan area.