Richmond, Virginia

:This article is about the city in Virginia. For information on other cities with the same name, please see Richmond (disambiguation).

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Virginia - Richmond

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Richmond, Virginia

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Richmond is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States of America. Like all Virginia municipalities incorporated as cities, it is an independent city, not part of any county (Richmond County is unrelated, and located in a different region of the state). Richmond is located in the Piedmont region of Virginia and is at the center of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA).

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Capital - Commonwealth - Virginia - United States of America - Independent city - County - Richmond County - State - Piedmont - Metropolitan Statistical Area

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Richmond may also be known as RIC (its airport code), or the, 804 (its area code), or even RVA, as common colloquialisms for the city.

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Airport code - Area code

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As of the 2000 census, the city of Richmond had a total population of 197,790. A more recent census estimate indicates that Richmond's population has grown to 201,384. Richmond was until recently known as the 3rd largest city in Virginia behind Norfolk and Virginia Beach, but it is now the fourth largest, having been overtaken in the last census by Chesapeake, whose population is around 200,000.

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2000 - Virginia - Norfolk - Virginia Beach - Chesapeake

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