The History of Virginia begins with documentation by the first Spanish explorers to reach the area in the 1500s, when it was occupied chiefly by Algonquian, Iroquoian, and Siouan peoples. After a failed English attempt to settle Virginia in the 1580s by Sir Walter Raleigh, permanent English settlement began in Virginia with Jamestown, Virginia in 1607. The Vi ... Read more »

The natural environment of Virginia encompasses the physical geography and biology of the U.S. state of Virginia. Virginia has a total area of 42,774.2 square miles (110,784.67 km²), including 3,180.13 square miles (8,236.5 km²) of water, making it the 35th-largest state by area.Forests cover 65% of the state, wetlands and water cover 6% of the land in the state, while 5% of the state is a mixture of commercial, residential, and transitional.

Virginia is bordered by Maryland and Washington, D.C.< ... Read more »

Virginia (/vərˈdʒɪnjə/ listen), UK: /vərˈdʒɪni.ə/, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia) is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic[7]regions of the United States located between the Atlantic Coast and the  ... Read more »