Washington D.C. Area

WMV Homes is located in the Washington area. Homestay visitors to the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area will enjoy the cultural, historical, economical and excellence that the area has to offer.

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. is the capital of the United States. It is coterminous with the District of Columbia (abbreviated as "D.C."). The city and the district are located on the banks of the Potomac River and bordered by the states of Virginia (to the west) and Maryland (to the north, east and south). The city was planned and developed in the late 18th century to serve as the permanent national capital; the fed the population of the District of Columbia is about 581,530 persons. The Washington Metropolitan Area is the eighth largest in the United States with more than five million residents, and the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area has a population exceeding eight millioneral district was formed to keep the national capital distinct from the states.

Maryland

Maryland is a state located on the Atlantic Coast in the Southern region of the United States of America. According to the most recent information provided by the U.S. Census Bureau, as of August 2007, Maryland is now the wealthiest state in the United States, with a median household income of $65,144. Maryland is a life sciences hub with over 350 biotechnology firms, making it the third-largest such cluster in the nation. Institutions and agencies located throughout Maryland include University System of Maryland, Johns Hopkins University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Celera Genomics, Human Genome Sciences (HGS), and The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

Virginia

The Commonwealth of Virginia is a Southeastern state on the Atlantic Coast of the United States of America. By population, Virginia is the 12th-most populous state in the U.S. with over 7.7 million residents and the 35th largest in area. Virginia is bordered by Maryland and Washington DC to the north. As of the 2000 census, Virginia had the highest number of counties and independent cities, fifteen, in the top one-hundred wealthiest jurisdictions in the United States based upon median income. As of 2007, seven Fortune 500 companies are headquartered in the Richmond area. Virginia has seventeen total Fortune 500 companies, making it rank tenth nationwide. Additionally, ten Fortune 1000 companies are in Northern Virginia, with a total of twenty-nine in the state.