No one ever heard of National Landing before Amazon announced it was the site of one of its new headquarters. That's because it didn't exist.

When the news broke about Amazon's decision, even people in D.C. were trying to figure out where "National Landing" was.

Maybe this is the reason the people who made the winning bid rebranded this place National Landing: You can walk from the airport to Crystal City, er, National Landing, in just four minutes and 18 seconds. It'll be even quicker when they put in a 300-yard bridge direct to a terminal door.

Turns out, National Landing is actually made up of three neighborhoods in northern Virginia: Potomac Yards, Pentagon City and Crystal City, a neighborhood with drab, vacant offices that have been gussied up with Pop art fabric and paint.

Here there's space for Amazon to develop, and these neighborhoods are only a few subway stops from Washington, D.C. That's just minutes to the centers of power, both formal and backroom.

It's just a few minutes more to get to the former museum that is being turned into Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's home in D.C., complete with 11 bedrooms and 25 bathrooms. Right now, it's a busy construction site near the Obamas, Ivanka Trump and the Irish Embassy.