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Renting an Apartment in Virginia Beach
What You Should Know
Virginia Beach is an independent city located in the South Hampton Roads area in
the Commonwealth of Virginia, on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay and the
Atlantic Ocean. It is the most populous city in Virginia and the 41st largest
city in the United States, with an estimated population of 435,619 in 2006.
Virginia Beach is the easternmost of the Seven Cities of Hampton Roads which
make up the core of the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC MSA. This
area, known as "America's First Region", also includes the independent cities of
Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Suffolk, as well as
other smaller cities, counties and towns of Hampton Roads.
Virginia Beach is best known as a resort, with miles of beaches and hundreds of
hotels, motels, and restaurants along its oceanfront. It is also home to several
state parks, several long protected beach areas, three military bases, a number
of large corporations, two universities, and historic sites. Near the point
where the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean meet, Cape Henry was the site of
the first landing of the English colonists bound for Jamestown on April 26,
1607.
The city is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as having the longest
pleasure beach in the world and is located at the southern end of the Chesapeake
Bay Bridge-Tunnel, the longest bridge-tunnel complex in the world