Nanjemoy, Maryland
（重定向自Nanjemoy）
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![Arctic explorer Matthew Henson, photographed in 1910](/Images/godic/202501/29/Matthew_Henson_19100129.jpg")
![Great blue herons at a nest](/Images/godic/202501/29/Ardea_herodias_at_the_nest_110129.jpg")
![Fossil specimens of a Turritella snail](/Images/godic/202501/29/Turritella_incrassata0129.jpg")
Nanjemoy is a settlement along Maryland Route 6 in southwestern Charles County, Maryland, United States, and the surrounding large rural area more or less bounded by Nanjemoy Creek to the east and north, and the Potomac River to the south and west.