The population was , at the census. Located on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay , Virginia Beach is a principal city in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area which has more than 1.
Virginia Beach is a resort city with miles of beaches and hundreds of hotels, motels, and restaurants along its oceanfront. 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 ; modern Virginia Beach was established in It is home to several state parks, protected beaches, and military bases.
The city is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as having the longest pleasure beach in the world. The Chesepian were the historic indigenous people of the area now known as Tidewater in Virginia at the time of European encounter.
Little is known about them [ 11 ] but archeological evidence suggests they may have been related to the Carolina Algonquian , or Pamlico people.
They would have spoken one of the Algonquian languages. These were common among the numerous tribes of the coastal area, who made up the loose Powhatan Confederacy , numbering in the tens of thousands in population.
