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Annandale

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

Annandale
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The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    University 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

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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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 → Annandale
    72 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · $7–10
  • Richmond → Annandale
    144 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · $13–17
  • Philadelphia → Annandale
    80 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · $8–11
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Springfield (Virginia), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    402 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    907 km
  3. 03
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,487 km
  4. 04
    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    2,568 km
  5. 05
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,568 km

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Around it

Next door to Annandale

Annandale is 17 km from Washington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.