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Annapolis is the capital of Maryland, the county seat of Anne Arundel County, and that county's only incorporated city.

Annapolis is situated on the Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of the Severn River, about 25 miles south of Baltimore and about 30 miles east of Washington, D.C.

A settlement named Providence was founded on the Severn River in 1649 by Puritan exiles from Virginia, and the town that became Annapolis was renamed for Princess Anne, later Queen Anne of Great Britain, when the colonial capital was moved there in 1694.

Annapolis was incorporated as a city in 1708, and its name honors Princess Anne of Denmark and Norway.

Annapolis served as the temporary national capital of the United States in 1783-1784, when Congress met in the Maryland State House, George Washington resigned his commission as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army there on December 23, 1783, and the Treaty of Paris was ratified there.

The 1786 Annapolis Convention issued the call for delegates to meet in Philadelphia the following year, leading to the convention that drafted the United States Constitution.

The Maryland State House, whose construction began in 1772, is the oldest state house in continuous legislative use in the United States and is topped by the largest wooden dome built without nails in the country.

The United States Naval Academy was founded in 1845 on the site of Fort Severn adjacent to the city limits, with about 4,500 midshipmen enrolled on average.

Annapolis is home to St. John's College, founded in 1696 as King William's School and opened as St. John's College in 1789.

The 2020 census recorded Annapolis's population as 40,812, an increase of 6.3 percent since 2010, and the City of Annapolis reports 17,523 households from the 2020 census.