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Body of water and area on the US east coast
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Hampton Roads is a region that encompasses the Norfolk-Virginia Beach metropolitan area in southeastern Virginia surrounding a body of water with the same name. It is home to two important living history museum: Colonial Williamsburg and the Jamestown Settlement. The region has many beaches, waterways, and hiking and biking trails.
By train
Amtrak has stations in Williamsburg, Norfolk, and Newport News.
By bus
Greyhound stops in Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Newport News, Hampton, Suffolk, and Williamsburg. Megabus stops in Hampton.
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a bedroom community for Norfolk
Chesapeake is a town of 245,000 people (2019) in the Hampton Roads region of Eastern Virginia. Chesapeake is a diverse city in which a few urban areas are located; it also has many square miles of protected farmland, forests, and wetlands, including a substantial portion of the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge.
Gloucester is a small town in the Hampton Roads region of Eastern Virginia. Gloucester is on Virginia's Middle Peninsula, directly across the York River from York County.
Hampton is a city in the Hampton Roads region of Virginia.
Newport News is a city in Virginia in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area. It's on the James River, and much of the area has been developed into a city starting in the late 19th century.
Norfolk is in the Hampton Roads region of Virginia. It is a port city with a large Navy and shipping presence.
Portsmouth is in Virginia, within the United States of America.
Smithfield is a historic town in Virginia, northwest to Carrollton. It is home to a bed and breakfast visited by George Washington.
Suffolk is a city in the Hampton Roads region of Virginia.
Virginia Beach is a resort city in southeast Virginia on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.
Williamsburg is a city in southeast Virginia. Settled in 1632, it was the capital of Virginia from 1699 to 1779 and in 1926, John D. Rockefeller Jr commissioned a restoration project to bring Williamsburg back to its former colonial glory.
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