Hampton Roads

Hampton Roads is the name of both a body of water and the land areas which surround it in southeastern Virginia in the United States.

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Virginia - United States

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Officially known as the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC MSA, the Hampton Roads area has a population about 1.6 million and is the fourth largest metropolitan area in the southeastern United States between Washington, D.C. and Atlanta. Other less-popular names for the area include Tidewater Virginia, Virginia's Waterfront, and "Seven Cities" (because of the seven primary cities in the area: Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Suffolk, and Virginia Beach).

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Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC MSA - Washington, D.C. - Atlanta

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While combined into a single Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) for economic purposes, most of the land area of Hampton Roads is geographically divided into 2 regions, the Virginia Peninsula and South Hampton Roads, locally known as the Southside. A small portion of Virginia's Middle Peninsula region and part of North Carolina are also included in the MSA definition.

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Metropolitan Statistical Area - Virginia Peninsula - South Hampton Roads - Middle Peninsula - North Carolina

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