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The Real Housewives of Potomac

American reality television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 25, 2026
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The Real Housewives of Potomac, abbreviated RHOP, is an American reality television series that premiered on January 17, 2016, on Bravo. Developed as the eighth installment of The Real Housewives franchise, it has aired ten seasons and focuses on the personal and professional lives of women living in and around Potomac, Maryland, a city in the Washington, D.C. tri-state area.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Real Housewives of Potomac” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.