Anacostia
Anacostia is the popular name for the huge swathe of the capital consisting of the many neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River. Its heart, in the small, historic neighborhood of Anacostia, is immediately across the Frederick Douglass Bridge from the Nationals Ballpark.Photo: Smallbones, CC0.
Photo: Ron Coggswell, CC BY 2.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, administered by the National Park Service, is located at 1411 W Street, SE, in Anacostia, a neighborhood east of the Anacostia River in Southeast Washington, D.C. United States.
America's Islamic Heritage Museum
Museum
America's Islamic Heritage Museum is the principal project of Collections & Stories of American Muslims, Inc.
District of Columbia Public Library-Anacostia Interim Branch Library
Library
Anacostia Neighborhood Library is part of the District of Columbia Public Library System.
Localities in the Area
Fairlawn
Neighbourhood
Fairlawn is a working class and middle class residential neighborhood in southeast Washington, D.C., United States.
Garfield Heights
Neighbourhood
Garfield Heights is a residential neighborhood in Southeast Washington, D.C., bordering Prince George's County, Maryland.
Buena Vista
Neighbourhood
Neighborhoods in Washington, D.C., United States are distinguished by their history, culture, architecture, demographics, and geography.
Anacostia
- Type: Suburb
- Description: neighbourhood in Washington, D.C.
- Categories: neighbourhood of Washington, D.C., neighbourhood and locality
- Location: Washington County (historical), Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.86544° or 38° 51' 56" northLongitude
-76.98425° or 76° 59' 3" westElevation
13 metres (43 feet)IATA airport code
NDVUnited Nations Location Code
US NDVOpen Location Code
87C5V288+57OpenStreetMap ID
node 157621768OpenStreetMap Feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
4137523Wikidata ID
Q4579829Anacostia Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Catalan: Anacostia
- Chinese: 阿納科斯蒂亞
- Chinese: 阿纳科斯蒂亚
- Dutch: Anacostia
- Finnish: Anacostia
- French: Anacostia
- French: Anacostia (quartier)
- Hebrew: אנאקוסטיה
- Japanese: アナコスティア
- Japanese: アナスコティア
- Norwegian: Anacostia
- Norwegian Bokmål: Anacostia
- Portuguese: Anacostia
- Russian: Анакостия
- Serbo-Croatian: Anacostia
- Slovenian: Anacostia
- Spanish: Anacostia
- Urdu: ایناکوسٹیا
- Frederick Subdivision
- Griswold Subdivision
- Nacotchtanke
- Old Uniontown
- Union Town
- Uniontown
Other Places Named Anacostia
Localities in the Area
- Barry FarmsNeighbourhood
- WoodlandNeighbourhood
- Bridge DistrictNeighbourhood
- Randle HighlandsNeighbourhood
- Near SoutheastQuarter
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Anacostia. Photo: Ron Coggswell, CC BY 2.0.