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Rockville, Maryland Area Information

Rockville is the county seat of Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. It is a major incorporated city in the central part of Montgomery County and forms part of the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area. According to estimates conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau for a 12-month period ending 1 July 2008, the city's population is 60,734, making it the second largest incorporated city in Maryland, behind Baltimore.

Rockville, along with neighboring Gaithersburg and Bethesda, is at the core of the Interstate 270 Technology Corridor which is home to numerous software and biotechnology companies as well as several federal government institutions. The city also has several upscale regional shopping centers and is one of the major retail hubs in Montgomery County.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 13.4 square miles (35 km2), of which, 13.4 square miles (35 km2) of it is land and it contains no major bodies of water.

Rockville is served by Montgomery County Public Schools.

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Institutions of higher education in Rockville include Montgomery College (Rockville Campus), University of Maryland University College (main campus is in Adelphi, Maryland), and Johns Hopkins University (Montgomery County Campus); main campus is in Baltimore, Maryland). Rockville is also home to the Universities at Shady Grove, a collaboration of nine Maryland public degree-granting institutions.

Information from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockville,_Maryland