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Renting an Apartment in Petersburg
What You Should Know
Petersburg is an independent city in Virginia, United States. The population was
33,740 at the 2000 census. It is in Tri-Cities area of the Richmond-Petersburg
region and is a portion of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). The
Bureau of Economic Analysis combines the city of Petersburg (along with Colonial
Heights) with neighboring Dinwiddie County for statistical purposes.
Location
Located along the eastern seaboard, approximately halfway between New York and
Florida, Petersburg is at the juncture of Interstates 95 and 85, just 23 miles
south of Virginia's state capital, Richmond. The city is one of 13 jurisdictions
that comprise the Richmond-Petersburg Metropolitan Statistical Area. Petersburg
is a part of the Tri-cities, Virginia regional economy known as the "Appomattox
Basin" that includes the counties of Dinwiddie and Prince George, the southern
part of Chesterfield County, and the cities of Hopewell and Colonial Heights.