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The Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area is a consolidated metropolitan area consisting of the overlapping labor market region of the cities of Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland. The region includes Central Maryland, Northern Virginia, and two counties in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia.
Officially, the area is designated by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as the Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV Combined Statistical Area (CSA). The CSA is composed primarily of two major metropolitan areas, the Baltimore-Towson Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) and the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV MSA. In addition, three other smaller urban areas not contiguous to the main urban area but having strong commuting ties with the main area are also included in the metropolitan area. These are the Winchester, VA-WV MSA, the Lexington Park, MD Micropolitan area and the Culpeper, VA Micropolitan area. Some counties and cities are not officially designated by the OMB as members of this metropolitan area, but still consider themselves members anyway. This is mostly due to their proximity to the area, the size of their commuter population, and by the influence of local broadcasting stations. The population of the entire Baltimore-Washington Metroplex as of 2007 is 8,241,912^{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}. The most populated city is Baltimore, with a population of 637,455. The most populated county is Fairfax County, with 1,010,241.

Components of the metropolitan area

The counties and independent cities and their groupings that comprise the metropolitan area are listed below with 2004 Census Bureau estimates of their populations.

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV MSA (5,286,227)
- Bethesda-Gaithersburg-Frederick, MD Metropolitan Division (1,287,005)
  - Frederick County
  - Montgomery County
- Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metropolitan Division (4,131,158)

Baltimore-Towson, MD MSA (2,658,405)

Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV MSA (261,198) Main Article: Hagerstown Metropolitan Area

Winchester, VA-WV MSA (118,932)

Lexington Park, MD Micropolitan Area (98,854)

Saint Mary's County

Culpeper, VA Micropolitan Area (44,622)

Culpeper County

List of cities

See List of cities in the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area for a full list.

Washington area

Fredericksburg, Virginia

Gaithersburg, Maryland

Silver Spring, Maryland

Tysons Corner, Virginia

Waldorf, Maryland

Baltimore area

Baltimore, Maryland

Catonsville, Maryland

Columbia, Maryland

Dundalk, Maryland

Ellicott City, Maryland

Glen Burnie, Maryland

Towson, Maryland

Westminster, Maryland

Brooklyn Park, Maryland

Economy

Local industries

Biotechnology industry

Not limited to its proximity to the National Institutes of Health, Maryland's Washington areas are a major center for biotechnology. Prominent local biotech companies include MedImmune, United Therapeutics, The Institute for Genomic Research, Human Genome Sciences and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Defense contracting

Many defense contractors are located in Maryland, Washington, D.C. and Northern Virginia to be close to the Pentagon in Arlington. Local defense contractors include, with the largest being Lockheed Martin in Bethesda, Maryland, as well as General Dynamics, Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), and Orbital Sciences Corporation.

Notable company headquarters in the region

(Numbers denote Fortune 500 company ranking.)

Washington, District of Columbia

BET Black Entertainment Television

Bureau of National Affairs

Calibre Energy

Carlyle Group

Danaher 287

Federal National Mortgage Association - "Fannie Mae"

National Geographic Society

Pepco Holdings, Inc. 283

Washington Post Company

XM Satellite Radio

Maryland

ARINC (Annapolis)

BAE Systems (Rockville)

Bethesda Softworks (Rockville)

Black & Decker (Towson) 330

Choice Hotels (Silver Spring)

Constellation Energy (Baltimore) 125

Coventry Health Care (Bethesda) 328

Discovery Communications (Silver Spring)

Fila (Sparks)

GEICO (Chevy Chase)

Hughes Network Systems (Germantown)

Legg Mason (Baltimore)

Lockheed Martin (Bethesda) 52

Marriott International (Bethesda) 203

McCormick & Company (Hunt Valley)

MedImmune (Gaithersburg)

New Enterprise Associates (Baltimore and Bethesda)

Novak Biddle Venture Partners (Bethesda)

Radio One (Lanham)

Ritz Carlton (Chevy Chase)

Robert L. Johnson Companies (Bethesda)

T. Rowe Price (Baltimore)

TV One (Silver Spring)

United Therapeutics (Silver Spring)

Under Armour (Baltimore)

Virginia

AES Corporation (Arlington) 221

BearingPoint (McLean)

Booz Allen Hamilton (McLean)

Capital One (McLean) 187

Chevy Chase Bank (McLean)

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (McLean) - "Freddie Mac"

Gannett Company (McLean) 296

General Dynamics (Falls Church) 100

Kellogg Brown and Root Services (Arlington)

Mars, Incorporated (McLean)

NVR Incorporated (Reston) 410

Orbital Sciences (Dulles)

SLM Corporation (Reston) 331 - "Sallie Mae"

USA Today (McLean)

Volkswagen of America (Herndon)

Transportation

Interstate 495 (Capital Beltway)

Interstate 695 (Baltimore Beltway)

Baltimore-Washington Parkway/Maryland Route 295

West Virginia Route 9Further Information

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