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Frederick is an incorporated city and the county seat of Frederick County, Maryland, in the north-central part of the state.

The 2020 census counted 78,171 people in Frederick, making it the second-largest incorporated city in Maryland, behind only Baltimore.

Land speculator Daniel Dulany the Elder laid out Frederick Town by 1745 on a 7,000-acre tract called Tasker's Chance, and the town was named for Frederick, Prince of Wales.

When Frederick County was created in 1748, Frederick Town was made its county seat, and it grew into an important market town and seat of justice for western Maryland.

Frederick was a magnet for German immigrants arriving from Pennsylvania, a heritage still visible in its many historic churches and downtown buildings.

Francis Scott Key, the Frederick County lawyer who wrote The Star-Spangled Banner, is buried beneath an 1898 monument at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Frederick.

Mount Olivet Cemetery also holds the graves of Barbara Fritchie, the Frederick patriot celebrated in John Greenleaf Whittier's Civil War poem, and Thomas Johnson, the first governor of the state of Maryland.

Frederick served as a hospital town for wounded soldiers from the nearby battles of Antietam and Monocacy during the Civil War.

Downtown Frederick is home to the National Museum of Civil War Medicine, which interprets the medical care provided to Civil War soldiers.

Hood College, a private liberal arts college in Frederick, stands on land donated by benefactor Margaret Scholl Hood.