Hagerstown, Maryland

Hagerstown (Hagerstown - Definitions from Dictionary.com) is a city in northwestern Maryland, United States. It is the county seat of Washington County, and one of the largest cities in a region known as Western Maryland.Hagerstown, Maryland, mdoe.org Maryland Online Encyclopedia. Retrieved 15 September 2008. The population of Hagerstown city according to the 2020 United States Census is 43,527, and the total 2020 Urbanized Area population is 197,557.

Hagerstown anchors the Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is part of the Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV-PA Combined Statistical Area. The population of the metropolitan area in 2020 was 293,844 (ranked 170th in the United States). Hagerstown is also in the Great Appalachian Valley.

Hagerstown is a center of transit and commerce. Interstates 81 and 70, CSX, Norfolk Southern, and the Winchester and Western railroads, and Hagerstown Regional Airport cross in the city. Hagerstown is also the chief commercial and industrial hub for a greater Tri-State Area that includes much of Western Maryland as well as great extents of South Central Pennsylvania and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. Hagerstown has often been referred to as and is nicknamed the Hub City.

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