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Location:
USA,
Virginia, Virginia Beach
Category:
Beach view
Description:
View
of Virginia beach near
Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel
and the Atlantic Ocean
Location Information:
Virginia Beach is an independent
city located in the Hampton Roads
metropolitan area of Virginia, on
the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of
the Chesapeake Bay. Although Fairfax
County is the most populous
jurisdiction, Virginia Beach is the
most populous city in Virginia and
the 42nd largest city in the United
States, with an estimated population
of 440,415 in 2008.
Virginia Beach is the easternmost of
the Seven Cities of Hampton Roads
that 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 a resort city with
miles of beaches and hundreds of
hotels, motels, and restaurants
along its oceanfront. Every year the
city hosts the East Coast Surfing
Championships as well as the North
American Sand Soccer Championship, a
beach soccer tournament. It is also
home to several state parks, several
long-protected beach areas, three
military bases, a number of large
corporations, two universities, and
numerous 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, who
eventually settled in Jamestown, on
April 26, 1607.
The city is listed in the Guinness
Book of Records as having the
longest pleasure beach in the world.
It is located at the southern end of
the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel,
the longest bridge-tunnel complex in
the world.
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