page_title: Baltimore
section_title: Cityscape
hierarchical_section_title: Baltimore / Geography / Cityscape
caption_attribution_description: English: A panorama of Baltimore's Inner Harbor.
context_page_description: Baltimore is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland, as well as the 30th most populous city in the United States, with a population of 593,490 in 2019. Baltimore is the largest independent city in the country and was designated as such by the Constitution of Maryland in 1851. As of 2017, the population of the Baltimore metropolitan area was estimated to be just under 2.802 million, making it the 21st largest metropolitan area in the country. Baltimore is located about 40 miles northeast of Washington, D.C., making it a principal city in the Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area, the fourth-largest CSA in the nation, with a calculated 2018 population of 9,797,063.
  Prior to European colonization, the Baltimore region was home to the Susquehannock Native Americans. British colonists established the Port of Baltimore in 1706 to support the tobacco trade, and established the Town of Baltimore in 1729.
caption: Panoramic view of Baltimore along the Inner and Outer Harbor at dusk, as seen from the HarborView Condominium.
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