Ashburn

Ashburn, Virginia is a census-designated place located in Loudoun County, Virginia, 30 miles (48 km) northwest of Washington, D.C., and is part of the Washington Metropolitan Area. The population as of the 2010 Census was 43,511.

Ashburn is located between Washington Dulles International Airport and Leesburg, the county seat of Loudoun County.  Ashburn was originally called Farmwell (variant names include Old Farmwell and Farmwell Station) after a nearby mansion of that name owned by George Lee III. 

The Ashburn area consists of many major and minor subdivisions such as Ashbrook, Ashburn Farm, Ashburn Village, the Courts and Ridges at Ashburn, Belmont Greene, Belmont Country Club, Brambleton, Broadlands and the Village of Waxpool.

Located within the Dulles Technology Corridor, Ashburn is home to many high-tech businesses. World Trade Center Dulles Airport is currently under construction and will be the second World Trade Center in the state.   Verizon Business has a major office in Ashburn at the location replacing MCI WorldCom's headquarters after its acquisition.  Ashburn is also home to government contractor Telos, and Amazon Web Service's "us-east-1" region of cloud computing resources.^{[citation needed]}

The George Washington University's Virginia Science and Technology Campus and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus are located in Ashburn. Redskins Park, the training camp for the Washington Redskins football team of the National Football League, is also located in Ashburn.   The Wikimedia Foundation (parent of Wikipedia) has its primary data center in Ashburn.

EADS North America (the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company), renamed Airbus Group, Inc., a defense contractor headed by former NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe, has a second location in Ashburn in addition to the main office in Herndon, Virginia.

*Wikipedia