District of Columbia · United States
Washington population
689,545people · latest figure
Washington has a population of 689,545, making it the 20th largest place we list in United States. It is in District of Columbia.
Washington holds 0.20% of United States's 349,035,494 people. New York City, the largest place we list there, is 13 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 552,433, a rise of 25%.
The 2005 figure comes from the World Gazetteer archive restored on this site. The two sources may draw the settlement's boundary differently, so treat the change as indicative rather than exact. Why figures differ.
Washington is in District of Columbia, which has 52 recorded places.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | California | 827,526 |
| Seattle | Washington | 780,995 |
| Denver | Colorado | 729,019 |
| Nashville | Tennessee | 689,447 |
| Oklahoma City | Oklahoma | 681,054 |
| El Paso | Texas | 678,815 |
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Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) where the UN lists the country separately; the handful it reports under a parent state keep a GeoNames figure and are marked as such. Sources & method.