Why is Washington, the capital of the United States, not in Washington State?

The full name of Washington is Washington, D.C. In June 1889,165438+1October1/joined the federation, becoming the 42nd state after the United States joined the federation. Washington State is named after George Washington, the first president of the United States. He is known as the father of the United States. He served as the commander-in-chief of the colonial army during the American Revolutionary War and led the war to achieve American independence.

Washington, D.C., also known as Huadu and Washington for short, is the capital of the United States of America. It is named after George Washington, the first president of the United States. It is close to Virginia and Maryland and is located in the northeastern United States and the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. It is a special administrative division established as the capital in 1790, which is directly under the jurisdiction of the US Congress, so it does not belong to any state in the United States.

Washington is located on the east coast of the Pacific Ocean, bordering Canada in the north and Idaho and Oregon in the southeast. Washington State covers an area of 184,400 square kilometers (ranked18 among states) and has a population of about 6.5 million (ranked 13 in the United States). The climate is bounded by the Cascade Mountains. The west is wet and rainy, with an annual average temperature of 10.6℃, and the east is dry and cold, with an annual average temperature of about 4.4℃.

Washington, D.C. used to be a shrubby land with only a few farmhouses scattered among it. After Washington, the first president of the United States, chose this place as the capital, he named it Columbus to commemorate Columbus's discovery of the New World. The new capital has not been built yet, and Washington is convenient to die in 1799. In memory of him, the federal government and Congress named the new capital Washington when 1800 was completed.