Annandale
Annandale is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States.

Annandale is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The population of the CDP was 43,363 as of the 2020 United States census. It is home to the oldest and largest branch of the Northern Virginia Community College system, and to one of the D.C. area's Koreatowns.
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Worth seeing in and around Annandale
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01University of Northern Virginia
The University of Northern Virginia was an unaccredited for-profit private undergraduate and graduate university in Annandale, Virginia. The university offered bachelors, Masters and doctoral degrees.
400 m · For-profit university in Virginia, United States · Wikipedia
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Getting to Annandale
- Airports
- Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA), 15 km · Washington Dulles (IAD), 24 km · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI), 60 km
- Baltimore → Annandale72 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · $7–10
- Richmond → Annandale144 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · $13–17
- Philadelphia → Annandale80 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · $8–11
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Annandale
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Annandale. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundAdditionally, walking paths in the built-up areas may not be the most beautiful, but a day trip walking around Lake Accotink will help clear out the concrete blahs.
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Next door to Annandale
Annandale is 17 km from Washington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.