[3] Landover is contained between Sheriff Road and Central Avenue to the south, Hill Road, Cabin Branch Drive, and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Metro) Orange Line tracks to the west, John Hanson Highway (U.S. Highway 50) to the north, and Washington D.C.'s Capital Beltway (Interstate 495/95) to the east.

It is also home to the Prince George's Sports & Learning Complex, WMATA's Landover Metrobus Division, WMATA's Carmen E. Turner Maintenance Facility, Giant Food Corporate Office, Giant Food Corporate Plant, National Harmony Memorial Park Cemetery, and Ardwick Industrial Park.

Giant Food has its headquarters in a location in unincorporated Prince George's County in the Ardwick Industrial Park area, near Landover.

[14] In 2014, the National Archives for Black Women's History was controversially relocated from Washington, D.C., to 3300 Hubbard Road in Landover.

[19] The Prince George's Sports & Learning Complex is also in Summerfield CDP,[20] located on approximately 80 acres (320,000 m2) adjacent to FedExField.

[21] Prince George's County Police Department headquarters, which is also District 3 Station,[22][23] is in the Palmer Park area in Landover CDP.

[25] Middle schools serving sections of the Landover CDP include: G. James Gholson, Kenmoor, and Charles Carroll.

[26] Senior high schools serving sections of the Landover CDP include: Fairmont Heights, Charles Herbert Flowers, DuVal, and Bladensburg.

[27] The schools serving the 1990 CDP are:[28] Cooper Lane and Gladys Noon Spellman elementaries,[25] Charles Carroll Middle,[26] and Bladensburg High.

[31] In 2012 EXCEL Academy agreed to open a charter school in the former Henson space,[32] and it moved from its previous campus in Riverdale.

Built in 1972, it was the first enclosed mall in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area to house four high-end retail anchor stores: Garfinkel's, Hecht's (owned by the May company), Woodward and Lothrop (popularly known as Woodies), and Sears.

Located at the Capital Beltway and Landover Road, the mall neighbored the towns of Palmer Park, Ardmore, Glenarden, and Largo.

In 2007, according to The Washington Post,[36] Prince George's County officials were in the midst of developing plans to transform the area where Landover Mall once stood.

The goal of the project is to transform the area into a residential and cultural hub that replicates the Bowie Town Center, and The Boulevard at the Capital Centre; the latter is in Lake Arbor CDP and has a Largo postal address.