Hampton Roads

Hampton Roads (literally " Hampton Roads " ) refers both to the waterway in the State of Virginia, where the rivers James River, Nansemond River, and Elizabeth River flow into the Chesapeake Bay, and the metropolitan area around the waterway around.

It is a major transportation hub for the cities of Norfolk, Portsmouth and Newport News. It is also an important waterway for the United States Navy, which leads from the Atlantic Ocean to the naval base and the navy yard in Norfolk and Newport News Shipbuilding shipyard.

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Hampton Roads Region

As Hampton Roads and the metropolitan area is called in southeastern Virginia, which is located around this waterway around. It includes the cities of Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Chesapeake and Suffolk to the south and Newport News, Hampton, Williamsburg and Poquoson in the north.

In the region of Hampton Roads Today, about 1.6 million people. It is the largest metropolitan area between Washington, DC and Atlanta.

Historically, this region is of importance. The British colonial empire on the territory of the United States began with the founding of the first English settlement in the New World in 1607 in Jamestown its beginning and at Yorktown with the victory of George Washington on General Charles Cornwallis in 1781 in the Revolutionary War to an end (except for the temporary control of Florida and Hawaii).

On the waterway, the Battle of Hampton Roads was fought during the American Civil War, which resulted as warships for the immediate end of the sailing ships.

Language

In the area of the Tidewater accent is spoken part.

Universities

Public, four- year

Public, two-year

  • Commonwealth College - Hampton
  • Thomas Nelson Community College - Hampton
  • Tidewater Community College

Private

  • Hampton University - Hampton
  • Northrop Grumman Newport News Apprentice School of Shipbuilding - Newport News
  • Regent University - Virginia Beach
  • Virginia Wesleyan College - Virginia Beach

Foreign subsidiaries

To reduce the dependence of the economy by the military, the governments of the regions are increasingly trying to move companies from outside the settlement.

German

  • Stihl Inc. - Virginia Beach
  • Init Inc. - Chesapeake
  • Liebherr Mining Equipment Co - Newport News
  • Bauer Compressors, INC..
  • Hapag- Lloyd America, INC. - Norfolk
  • Kettler International, INC. - Virginia Beach
  • Siemens VDO - Newport News

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