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2023 Rank City Type 2023 Estimate [1] 2020 Census Change County 1: Charleston †† City 46,838 48,864 −4.15%: Kanawha: 2: Huntington † City 45,325 46,842
The U.S. state of West Virginia has 55 counties. Fifty of them existed at the time of the Wheeling Convention in 1861, during the American Civil War, when those counties seceded from the Commonwealth of Virginia to form the new state of West Virginia. [1] West Virginia was admitted as a separate state of the United States on June 20, 1863. [2]
The main article for this category is List of cities in West Virginia; Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cities in West Virginia; See also West Virginia and categories Towns in West Virginia, Villages in West Virginia, Census-designated places in West Virginia, Unincorporated communities in West Virginia
Cities in West Virginia (36 C, 80 P) F. Former municipalities in West Virginia (16 P) T. Towns in West Virginia (16 C, 147 P) V. Villages in West Virginia (1 C, 1 P)
Charleston is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of West Virginia and the seat of Kanawha County. [9] It is at the confluence of the Elk and Kanawha rivers. The population was 48,864 at the 2020 census. [5]
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Cities in West Virginia. It includes cities that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. This is a container category .
The population of the city was 16,039 at the 2020 census, making it the tenth-most populous city in West Virginia. [3] It is the principal city of the Clarksburg micropolitan area, which had a population of 90,434 in 2020. [5] Clarksburg was named National Small City of the Year in 2011 by the National League of Cities.
On July 21, 2023, the OMB delineated five combined statistical areas, 10 metropolitan statistical areas, and five micropolitan statistical areas in West Virginia. [1] As of 2023, the largest of these is the Charleston-Huntington-Ashland, WV-OH-KY CSA , which includes West Virginia's capital and largest city, Charleston .