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Virginia Beach, Virginia

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Virginia Beach is the most populous city in the U.S. commonwealth of Virginia, located on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay in the southeastern part of the state, and ranks as the sixth-most populous city in the Mid-Atlantic region. Built around a long public beachfront boardwalk, Virginia Beach is a major East Coast tourist resort while also hosting a significant concentration of United States military installations tied to the wider Hampton Roads naval region.

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