The National Capital Area Council (NCAC) is a local council of the Boy Scouts of America and serves Scouts in the Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia, and the United States Virgin Islands. It is rated as a "Class 200" council by the National Council (headquarters office), which denotes that the NCAC is among the very largest in the country. Chartered in 1911, it is also one of the oldest. The council is divided into 23 districts serving ten counties in Northern Virginia, six counties in Maryland, the District of Columbia, and the US Virgin Islands.