Virginia Abbreviation

What is the abbreviation for Virginia state?

VA is the 2 letter abbreviation for Virginia, the 12th largest state in the United States of America. Virginia is a state located in Southeastern part of U.S.A, bordering Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia. Richmond is the capital city of Virginia. Major cities include Virginia Beach (Population: 452756), Norfolk (Population: 246404), Chesapeake (Population: 235440), Richmond (Population: 220300), Arlington (Population: 207638), Newport News (Population: 182396), Alexandria (Population: 153522), East Hampton (Population: 148004), Hampton (Population: 136465), Roanoke (Population: 99908), Portsmouth Heights (Population: 99060), and Portsmouth (Population: 96212).

Virginia State Profile

• Capital: Richmond
• Admitted to USA: June 25, 1788
• Area: 110,787 km²
• Population: 8,535,519
• Time zone: GMT-5
• Calling code: 276, 434, 540, 571, 703, 757, 804
• ISO 2-Letter Postal Abbreviation:  VA
• State Government Website: http://www.virginia.gov/

Overview

Virginia got its name in honor of the English Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) – the Virgin Queen (virgin = virgin). The state today is also known as “Old Dominion” (Old dominion) or as “Mother of the Presidents” means “- because from Virginia many presidents of the United States came, such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe and James Madison. The region was the tenth of the original 13 colonies that had joined together to form an association of states, major industries being agriculture (tobacco, cotton, May, Wiezen), cattle breeding, oyster fishing and manufacturing.

The first English permanent settlement was established in Jamestown on the James River in Virginia on May 13, 1607. Jamestown is located approximately 250 km south of Washington. The settlement received its name after King James I or Jakob (1566-1625), the successor to Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603). For the 400 year celebration in May 2007, Elisabeth II came to Virginia as a guest of honor, but 9 days before the actual anniversary celebration.
The state covers an area of ​​110,785 km² – with around 8 million inhabitants.

The capital of Virginia is Richmond. The first president of the United States lived on the colonial-style estate of Mount Vernon – located in northeast Virginia, near Washington, DC. He died here and was buried here with his wife and other family members. There is now a museum in the property. In the tiny hamlet of Appomattox Court House, on April 9, 1865, General Rober E. Lee’s West Virginia Army surrender was signed. This is the official end of the civil war.

Massacre in Blacksburg
On April 16, 2007, the worst massacre at a university or school in the USA occurred on the campus of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in Blacksburg.
The assassin killed 32 people and injured 29. He then shot himself.

Note
Astronomers from the University of Virginia discovered a “black hole” in the Henize 2-10 dwarf galaxy, which is only 3,000 light years in diameter, with a mass millions of times larger than that of our sun.
Since the galaxy had no mass compression in the center (bulge), this was considered impossible until then. The discovery presented astronomy and astrophysics with the problem of having to partially revise the formation of black holes.

Cities and larger towns

Richmond
With approximately 205,000 residents, Richmond is not the largest city in the state in terms of population and is only the fourth largest city in Virginia, yet it is the capital. The independent city is located on the James River, about 150 km from Chesapeake Bay. The area is marked by the foothills of the Piedmont plateau on one side and the Atlantic lowlands on the other side. Richmond was founded in 1737 and was the capital of the Confederate United States of America, which consisted of the former slave states in the south of the country, but dissolved in 1865. The cityscape of Richmond is dominated by many office buildings today, since the city is also home to the government, the financial center, insurance companies and law firms.

Virginia Beach
With 438,000 residents, Virginia Beach is the largest city in the state and the 41st largest city in the United States. Virginia Beach, founded in 1906, is located in the Hampton Roads region, a metropolitan area in southeast Virginia that lies directly on the Atlantic coast and Chesapeake Bay. It does not belong to a county, but is an independent city. The Virginia Beach metropolitan area has approximately 1,700,000 residents. Many of them are drawn to Virginia Beach in the summer, the long sandy beach that gave the city its name. The 45 km long sandy beach is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest leisure beach in the world. Also noteworthy is the Chesapeake Bay Bridge tunnel, considered one of the largest of its kind, and Virginia Beach with the Delmarva Peninsula, a peninsula, which belongs to Virginia, Maryland and Delaware. The island in the Atlantic still has wild horse populations and is also popular with ornithologists.

Norfolk
In the southeast of the state, not far from Virginia Beach, is Norfolk, which is the second largest city in the state with approximately 230,000 inhabitants, which does not belong to any county and is also located in the Hampton Roads region. Together with Virginia Beach and Newport News, it forms the metropolitan area of ​​these three cities. Around 42 percent of the city falls on water, which is 100 km², which was certainly not least reason for the US Navy to move its main base there. As the oldest city in the Hampton Roads region, Norfolk is known as the urban, financial and cultural center of the metropolitan area.

Chesapeake
With approximately 230,000 inhabitants, Chesapeake is an independent city in the South Hampton Roads region, making it the third largest in Virginia. It was founded in 1963 and emerged from the merger of South Norfolk and Norfolk County, which made it the second largest city in Virginia by area. On the one hand, the city is very modern and urban, but it is also surrounded by a lot of nature. Parts of the Great Dismal Swamp, the large swamp area in southeast Virginia, are located in Chesapeake.

Newport News
In the east of the state is the city of Newport News, which is the fifth largest city in Virginia with around 181,000 inhabitants and was founded in 1621. Together with Virginia Beach and Norfolk, Newport News forms the metropolitan region of the three cities and borders on the port of the Hampton Roads Region, the James River and the Virginia Peninsula. Culturally, Newport News doesn’t have much to offer, as it’s heavily linked to the military. Its main industry consists of shipbuilding, aviation and the military. The Mariner’s Museum, which is the largest shipping museum in the USA, could be worth seeing.

Alexandria Alexandria is located
on the Potomac River, about 10 km from Washington DC. Like many other cities in Virginia, Alexandria is characterized by its proximity to the capital. The city is bursting with urban modernity and is mostly populated by the upper middle class, who works in one of the government departments, banks, or the military, and has ranked the city as the seventh most populous city in the United States. Downtown Alexandria is extremely cultural and the cityscape is adorned with theaters, exhibitions, antique shops and fine restaurants.

List of Virginia Acronyms

The most commonly used abbreviations about Virginia are VA which stands for Virginia. In the following table, you can see all acronyms related to Virginia, including abbreviations for airport, city, school, port, government, and etc.

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