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Largest municipalities in West Virginia by population. Charleston, the capital of West Virginia and its most populous city. Huntington. Parkersburg. Morgantown. Wheeling. Martinsburg. Fairmont. Beckley.
The U.S. state of West Virginia has 55 counties. Fifty of them existed at the time of the Wheeling Convention in 1861, during the American Civil War, when those counties seceded from the Commonwealth of Virginia to form the new state of West Virginia. [1] West Virginia was admitted as a separate state of the United States on June 20, 1863. [2]
West Virginia is a landlocked state in the Southern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. [ note 2] It is bordered by Pennsylvania to the north and east, Maryland to the east and northeast, Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, and Ohio to the northwest. West Virginia is the 10th-smallest state by area and ranks as the ...
Charleston, West Virginia. / 38.34722°N 81.63333°W / 38.34722; -81.63333. Charleston is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of West Virginia and the seat of Kanawha County. [ 7] Located at the confluence of the Elk and Kanawha rivers, the city had a population of 48,864 at the 2020 census and an estimated population ...
Parkersburg is a city in and the county seat of Wood County, West Virginia, United States. [ 5] Located at the confluence of the Ohio and Little Kanawha rivers, it is the state's fourth-most populous city and the center of the Parkersburg–Vienna metropolitan area. The city's population was 29,749 at the 2020 census, and its metro population ...
Morgantown is a city in and the county seat of Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States, situated along the Monongahela River. The most populous city in North Central West Virginia and the third-most populous city in the state, Morgantown is best known as the home of West Virginia University. The population was 30,347 at the 2020 census. [8]
The main article for this category is List of cities in West Virginia; Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cities in West Virginia; See also West Virginia and categories Towns in West Virginia, Villages in West Virginia, Census-designated places in West Virginia, Unincorporated communities in West Virginia
Berkeley County is located in the Shenandoah Valley in the eastern panhandle region of West Virginia in the United States. The county is part of the Hagerstown–Martinsburg metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 122,076, [ 5] making it the second-most populous of West Virginia's 55 counties, behind Kanawha County.