Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area

The Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area is the metropolitan area consisting of Washington, DC, Baltimore, Maryland, Northern Virginia, Central Maryland, and two counties in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. It is the fourth largest metropolitan area in the U.S. after New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago.

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Metropolitan area - Washington, DC - Baltimore, Maryland - Northern Virginia - Maryland - Eastern Panhandle - West Virginia - U.S. - New York - Los Angeles - Chicago

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Officially, the area is designated the Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area (CMSA). The CMSA includes the Baltimore, MD Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area (PMSA) the Hagerstown, MD PMSA and the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV MSA. Some counties and cities are not officially designated by the Census Bureau as members of this metropolitan area, but still consider themselves members anyway. This is mostly due to their proximity to the area, the size of their commuter population, and by the influence of local broadcasting stations.

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Baltimore, MD Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area - Hagerstown, MD PMSA - Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV MSA

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