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Area codes. 757, 804, 948, 252. Hampton Roads is the name of a body of water in the United States that serves as a wide channel for the James, Nansemond, and Elizabeth rivers between Old Point Comfort and Sewell's Point near where the Chesapeake Bay flows into the Atlantic Ocean. It also gave its name to the surrounding metropolitan region ...
The Virginia Peninsula is highlighted in orange Virginia Peninsula This 1996 satellite photo shows Hampton Roads, with the lower (southeastern) end of Virginia Peninsula filling most of the top half of the image. The Virginia Peninsula is located in southeast Virginia, bounded by the York River, James River, Hampton Roads and Chesapeake Bay.
Joining the seven major cities of Hampton Roads was the comparatively tiny City of Poquoson, which had formerly been an incorporated town in York County). Many incorporated (formally constituted) localities became legally defunct, though mostly not abandoned by their citizens, with the notable exception of Jamestown.
Chelsea goalkeeper Hannah Hampton tells CNN Sport how she overcame a series of eye surgeries and a lack of depth perception to become one of the world’s best goalies.
Hampton (/ ˈhæmptən /) is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. The population was 137,148 as of the 2020 census, making it the seventh-most populous city in Virginia. [7] Hampton is included in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area, the 37th-largest in the United States, with a total population of 1,799,674 ...
Tidewater (region) Coordinates: 36°53′N 76°28′W. Painted relief map of the Tidewater region on the east coast of the United States in darkest green to one shade lighter green to the west. " Tidewater " is a term for the north Atlantic Plain region of the United States, located east of the Piedmont. It includes Delaware, the remainder of ...
[4] Olongapo in the Philippines is a sister city of Virginia Beach. [4] In 2010, 17,930 people of Filipino ancestry lived in Virginia Beach. The numbers in other municipalities were as follows: 4,727 in Norfolk, 3,050 in Chesapeake, 1,164 in Newport News, 508 in Portsmouth, 491 in Hampton, and 488 in Suffolk. [6]
Franklin is the southwesternmost independent city in Hampton Roads, Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 8,180. [ 5 ] The Bureau of Economic Analysis combines the city of Franklin with Southampton County for statistical purposes.