Montgomery County Maryland, situated just north of Washington, D.C.  is one of the most affluent counties in the nation, and has the highest percentage (29.2%) of residents over 25 years old who hold a post-graduate degree. Most of the county's approximately 950,680 residents live in unincorporated locales, the most populous of which are Silver Spring, Germantown, and Bethesda. It is a part of both the Washington Metropolitan Area and the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area. The county is connected to Baltimore and the Nation’s Capital by metro rail service.

Economy
With a median household income  in 2008 of $87,624,  Montgomery County is the second richest county per capita in the State of Maryland and 8th richest in the nation. Downtown Bethesda and Silver Spring are the largest urban business hubs in the county; combined, they rival many major city cores.With the third largest biotechnology cluster in the U.S., Montgomery County is an important business center with research carried out through institutions like Johns Hopkins University's Montgomery County Campus (JHU MCC), Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the University of Maryland. Federal government agencies engaged in related work include the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the National Institutes of Health, and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.

Other major industry sectors include: communications, real estate development, insurance and  hospitality. Among the companies based in the county: Discovery Communications, Lockheed Martin, Marriott International, Host Marriott,  Choice Hotels, MedImmune, BAE Systems Inc, Hughes Network Systems, and GEICO.

Also, several U.S. federal government agencies are based in the county: the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), U.S. Department of Energy, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

Montgomery County has been a leader in recycling and other environmentally sustainable practices.

Culture                                                                                                                                              Downtown Silver Spring hosts several entertainment, musical, and ethnic festivals, the most notable of which are the Silverdocs documentary film festival held each June and hosted by Discovery Communications and the American Film Institute, as well as the annual Thanksgiving Day Parade (Saturday before Thanksgiving) for Montgomery County. The Silver Spring Jazz Festival has become the biggest event of the year drawing 20,000 people to the free festival held on the second Saturday in September. Featuring local jazz artist and a battle of high school bands, the Silver Spring Jazz Festival has featured such jazz greats as Wynton Marsalis.

As a richly diverse ethnic community , dining in Silver Spring is also extremely varied, including American, African, Burmese, Ethiopian, Moroccan, Italian, Mexican, Salvadoran, Jamaican, Vietnamese, Lebanese, and fusion restaurants, as well as many national and regional chains.

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 Montgomery County Maryland, ubicata nei sobborghi a Nord di  Washington, D.C. è tra le provincie degli Stati Uniti con maggiore reddito  e la percentuale più alta (29.2%) dei residenti sopra i 25 anni di età con master e dottorati universitari. Circa la metà dei nostri 950mila abitanti risiede a Silver Spring. Montgomery fa parte delle aree metropolitane di Washington, DC e Baltimora con eccellenti connessioni stradali,  ferroviarie e tre aeroporti internazionali.

Economia
Con un reddito medio per famiglia  nel 2008 di $87,624,  Montgomery County è al secondo posto nello Stato del Maryland e ottavo negli Stati Uniti. I centri commerciali di Bethesda e Silver Spring sono ai livelli dei grandi centri urbani del paese.Con il terzo raggruppamento negli Stati Uniti, la biotecnologia è il settore di riferimento per la nostra provincia, sia come imprese che dal punto di vista della ricerca; quest’ultima è svolta presso la  Johns Hopkins University Montgomery County Campus (JHU MCC), la Howard Hughes Medical Institute e l’Università del Maryland. Le seguenti agenzie federali sono ubicate nella provincia di Montgomery: Food and Drug Administration (FDA),  National Institutes of Health (NIH) e Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.

Cultura                                                                                                                                                              Il centro di Silver Spring è un punto di riferimento per attività artistiche e culturali                                                                                                                                                           il Silverdocs Festival  per  Documetari, sponsorizzato da Discovery Communications e  American Film Institute - mese di Giugno                                                                                                       la parata annuale per la Festa del Ringraziamento (Sabato precedente al Thanksgiving                                                                    il Jazz Festival di Silver Spring è l’ evento di maggiore rilievo con i suoi 20.000 visitatori - secondo Sabato di Settembre -  che presenta artisti  e le bande delle scuole locali ed i grandi del jazz come Wynton Marsalis.               

In quanto territorio molto diversificato da un punto di vista etcnico,  i visitatori di Silver Spring hanno l’oportunità di degustare la gastronomia di tutto il mondo, tra i quali: americana, africana, burmese, cinese, etiope, francese, italiana, giamaicana e libanese.                        

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