Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia | |
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 Aerial view of Crystal City (foreground) and the Potomac River and Washington, D.C. (background) in September 2020 | |
 Satellite image of Crystal City with U.S. Route 1 (left); Reagan National Airport (bottom right); George Washington Memorial Parkway (left); I-395 (top left), and The Pentagon, VA Route 233, and the Airport Viaduct (bottom) in 2002 | |
| Coordinates: 38°51′5.05″N 77°3′2.48″W / 38.8514028°N 77.0506889°W | |
| Country |  United States |
| State |  Virginia |
| County |  Arlington |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 22,543 |
| Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
| ZIP Code | 22202 |
| Area codes | 703, 571 |
Crystal City is an urban neighborhood in the southeastern corner of Arlington County, Virginia, approximately 5 miles south of Downtown Washington, D.C. Due to its extensive integration of office buildings and residential high-rise buildings using underground corridors, travel between stores, offices, and residences, it is possible to travel much of the neighborhood without going above ground, making at least part of Crystal City an underground city.
Crystal City includes several aerospace manufacturing and defense industry companies, public sector consulting firms, government contractors, the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Marshals Service, satellite offices for the Pentagon, and various nonprofit organizations, including the International Foundation for Electoral Systems and the national headquarters for PBS.
Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, the busiest airport in the Washington metropolitan area and 23rd-busiest airport in the nation with 11,553,850 passengers as of 2022, is located in Crystal City.