WASHINGTON, DC
Washington, DC is the capital of the United States and home to the most concentrated collection of free world-class museums in the country, with the 21 museums and galleries of the Smithsonian Institution spread across the National Mall and surrounding neighborhoods. Beyond the Smithsonian, the city contains the Library of Congress, the largest library in the world by catalog size, the National Archives, where the original Declaration of Independence and Constitution are on public display, and a concentration of presidential memorials, federal monuments, and historically significant government buildings that together form the most visited urban core in the United States.
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