[Fiji Hill]

Washington, DC’s area—72 square miles—is smaller than that of Bakersfield, Calif.

[Vigilanteman]

Maryland is the most odd shaped state in the union. Eliminate it. Give the western panhandle to West Virginia or Pennsylvania, the eastern shore south of the C&D Canal to Delaware, and everything else to DC.

Expand DC to cover everything from the first national capital to New York in the north, take in large swaths of New Jersey (or the whole puissant state) on the way to the first colonial capital in Philadelphia in the center and run it south to include everything north of the C&D Canal to the remaining rump of central Maryland, DC and the northern Virginia counties which are part of the DC metro area.

Rename it Maryland or Maryjersey in honor of the erased states, or the State of Columbia or Capitol District #13.