Alexandria

Alexandria is a free city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. As of the 2010 evaluation, the populace was 139,966, and in 2016, the populace was assessed to be 155,810. Situated along the western bank of the Potomac River, Alexandria is around 7 miles 11 km south of downtown Washington, D.C. Like whatever remains of Northern Virginia, and additionally Central Maryland, current Alexandria has been affected by its nearness to the U.S. capital. It is to a great extent populated by experts working in the government common administration, in the U.S. military, or for one of the numerous privately owned businesses which contract to give administrations to the central government. One of Alexandria's biggest managers is the U.S. Branch of Defense. Another is the Institute for Defense Analyses. In 2005, the United States Patent and Trademark Office moved to Alexandria, and in 2017, so did the home office of the National Science Foundation.