Template:DCMetroArea
| Principal cities (and city-like entities) |
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The District of Columbia itself, and Virginia's incorporated cities, are county equivalents. Virginia's incorporated cities are listed under their surrounding county. The incorporated cities bordering more than one county (Alexandria, Falls Church and Fredericksburg) are listed under the county they were part of before incorporation as a city. Some unincorporated areas and census-designated places like Silver Spring and Bethesda in Maryland, Reston in Virginia, as well as the County of Arlington in Virginia are also treated as city-like entities (or principal cities) even though they have not been legally incorporated as such. | |||||||||
Starting visibility: currently automatically selects itself to autocollapse
To set this template's starting visibility, the |state= parameter may be used:
|state=collapsed:{{DCMetroArea|state=collapsed}}to show the template collapsed, i.e., hidden apart from its title bar|state=expanded:{{DCMetroArea|state=expanded}}to show the template expanded, i.e., fully visible|state=autocollapse:{{DCMetroArea|state=autocollapse}}
If the |state= parameter in the template on this page is not set, the template's starting visibility is taken from the |default= parameter in the Collapsible option template. For the template on this page, that currently evaluates to autocollapse.