Because it was more or less midway between New England and the South. It didn't hurt that it was swampland and not considered of much value.
It was chosen by George Washington in 1790.
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Washington chose it and then planned the city. Nothing was there until it was chosen to be the capital. It was a swamp. Adams was the first president to live in the White House and it wasn't finished.
It is located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on the former site of the Rainbow Pool at the eastern end of the Reflecting Pool, between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument.
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The chosen name Washington was to honor the President. Columbia was a name for America in a poetry and song after the Revolutionary War. District was more popular then the word territory that was also a choice.