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Smithsonian Museums
The world's largest museum complex with 21 museums and galleries, all free, including the Air and Space Museum and Natural History Museum.
15 km · about 30 min drive
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Friendly
Maryland, United States · North America
About Friendly
Friendly works well as a base: 10 minutes from National Harbor, 15km from Smithsonian Museums.
Friendly is in Maryland, United States, with about 9,300 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is National Harbor, about 5 km away.
Friendly is an unincorporated area and census-designated place (CDP) in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, with an African-American majority population, located a few miles south of Washington, D.C. The population was 9,937 at the 2020 census.
Friendly had its own rural post office in the early 20thRead more
century, and is now under the mailing address Fort Washington. The name "Friendly" is most associated with Friendly High School, which serves most of the greater Fort Washington area. The Friendly area was largely rural until about 1960 and has steadily grown with single-family housing developments. At least five new residential neighborhoods are currently under construction in the area. Allentown Road connects Friendly with Andrews Air Force Base.
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Within an hour or so of Friendly: Smithsonian Museums (15 km), Jefferson Memorial (15 km), National Mall (16 km), Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (16 km).
Where is Friendly?
Friendly is in Maryland, United States, about 5 km from National Harbor.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 9,250
- Continent
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Region
- Maryland
- Timezone
- America/New_York
- Coordinates
- 38.7518, -76.9786
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Worth the detour from Friendly
8 notable places within an hour's drive.
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Jefferson Memorial
Neoclassical domed memorial on the Tidal Basin dedicated to Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence.
15 km · about 30 min drive
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National Mall
America's front yard stretching from the US Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial, lined with iconic monuments, memorials, and Smithsonian museums.
16 km · about 30 min drive
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Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Home to the Hope Diamond and over 148 million specimens, making it one of the world's premier natural history collections.
16 km · about 20 min drive
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National Gallery of Art
A free world-class museum on the National Mall featuring masterpieces from the Middle Ages to the present, including the only Leonardo da Vinci painting in the Americas.
16 km · about 30 min drive
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Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial
Powerful stone monument on the National Mall honouring the civil rights leader, featuring a 9-metre carved figure emerging from rock.
16 km · about 30 min drive
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World War II Memorial
Grand open-air memorial on the National Mall honouring the 16 million Americans who served in the Second World War.
16 km · about 20 min drive
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United States Capitol
Neoclassical seat of the US Congress topped by the iconic cast-iron dome, a centrepiece of the National Mall.
16 km · about 30 min drive
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