The Washington metropolitan area is the metropolitan area centered on Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. The area includes all of the federal district and parts of the U.S. states of Maryland and Virginia, along with a small portion of West Virginia.

The Washington metropolitan area is one of the most educated and most affluent metropolitan areas in the United States. The metro area anchors the southern end of the densely populated Northeast megalopolis, with an estimated total population of 6,097,684 as of the 2014 U.S. Census Bureau estimate, making it the sixth-largest metropolitan area in the country and largest metropolitan area in the Census Bureau’s Southeast region.

Chevy Chase

Chevy Chase is the name of both a town and an unincorporated census-designated place in Montgomery County, Maryland. A number of villages in the same...