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Virginia Beach
An Atlantic resort city at the mouth of the Chesapeake
Virginia Beach occupies the southeastern corner of Virginia, where the Chesapeake Bay meets the Atlantic Ocean — the strategic gateway to one of the great harbors of the East Coast. The largest city in Virginia by population, it stretches along miles of Atlantic shoreline and resort beach, and reaches inland across flat coastal lowland to the wild marshes and cypress swamps of the Back Bay and the North Carolina line.
The city sits at the tip of the Hampton Roads region, the huge natural harbor at the mouth of the Chesapeake that hosts the largest naval base in the world. Low and flat, fronting both bay and ocean, Virginia Beach combines a tourist beachfront, sprawling suburbs, and protected coastal wilderness at Virginia's seaward edge.