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What You Should Know
The Commonwealth of Virginia is a state in the southern United States. Named
after Queen Elizabeth I of England, who was known as the Virgin Queen, this
commonwealth was one of the original thirteen colonies that revolted against
British rule in the American Revolution. Virginia was the first part of the
Americas to be continuously inhabited by English colonists from its founding as
a European colony up to the American Revolution. It included area explored by
the 1584 expedition of Sir Walter Raleigh along the coast of North America, and
at one time it also included Bermuda (or Virgineola). The London Virginia
Company became incorporated as a joint stock company by a proprietary charter
drawn up on April 10, 1606. The charter granted lands stretching from
approximately the 34th parallel (North Carolina) north to approximately the 45th
parallel (New York) and from the Atlantic Ocean westward (although the Third
Charter of 1612 extended its boundaries far enough across the Atlantic to
incorporate Bermuda, which the company had been in possession of since 1609).
The capital is Richmond and the largest city is Virginia Beach.
Virginia is known as the "Mother of Presidents", because it is the birthplace of
eight U.S. presidents (George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James
Monroe, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, Zachary Taylor, and Woodrow Wilson),
more than any other state. Most of the United States' early presidents were from
the state. Virginia has also been known as the "Mother of States", because
portions of the original Colony subsequently became Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois,
and West Virginia as well as some portions of Ohio.
Virginia is bordered by West Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia
(across the Potomac River) to the north; by Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic
Ocean to the east; by North Carolina and Tennessee to the south; and by Kentucky
and West Virginia to the west.
The Chesapeake Bay divides the commonwealth, with Virginia's Eastern Shore, a
part of the Delmarva Peninsula, completely separate (an exclave) from the rest
of the Commonwealth.
Geographically, Virginia is divided into the following six regions:
* Ridge and Valley—between the Appalachian Plateau and Allegheny Plateau to the
west and the Blue Ridge Mountains to the east. Sometimes referred to as Valley
and Ridge.
* Shenandoah Valley—located within the Ridge and Valley Region; it is referred
to geographically—and culturally— as its own region.
* Blue Ridge Mountains—between the Ridge and Valley Region to the west and the
Piedmont region to the east.
* Piedmont—between the Blue Ridge Mountains to the west and the Tidewater region
to the east.
* Tidewater—between the fall line to the west and the Atlantic coast to the
east; it includes the Eastern Shore.
Virginia's long east-west axis means that metropolitan northern Virginia lies as
close to New York City and New England as to its own rural western panhandle.
Conversely, Lee County, at the tip of the panhandle, is closer to eight other
state capitals than it is to Richmond, Virginia's own capital.
Virginia has a number of National Park Service units, including one national
park, the Shenandoah National Park.