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Abingdon

Abingdon is a town in and the county seat of , United States, 133 miles southwest of . The population was 8,375 at the 2020 census.
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  • Type: Town with 8,380 residents
  • Description: town and county seat of Washington County, Virginia, United States
  • Also known as: “Abingdon, VA”, “Abingdon, Virginia”, “Black’s Fort”, “Blacks Fort”, and “Wolf Hills”
  • Postal codes: 24210-24212

Places of Interest

Highlights include Barter Theatre and Martha Washington Inn.

Theater building
Photo: RebelAt, Public domain.
, in Abingdon, Virginia, opened on June 10, 1933. It is the longest-running professional Equity theatre in the United States.

Hotel
Photo: RebelAt, Public domain.
The is a historic hotel located in Abingdon, Virginia. Originally built in 1832 by General Francis Preston, hero of the War of 1812, for his family of nine children, over the course of the last 174 years, the building has served as an upscale women's college, a Civil War and barracks, and as a residence for visiting actors of the .

is a historic parish of the Episcopal Church in Abingdon, Virginia, within the Diocese of Southwestern Virginia.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hayter.

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community in , in the U.S. state of . It has an elevation of 2,149 ft. is situated 3½ miles northeast of Abingdon.

Abingdon

Latitude
36.7104° or 36° 42′ 37″ north
Longitude
-81.97525° or 81° 58′ 31″ west
Population
8,380
Elevation
2,064 feet (629 metres)
IATA airport code
VJI
United Nations Location Code
US VJI
Open location code
868WP26F+5W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 8997373219
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4743815
Wiki­data ID
Q137919
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Abingdon” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أبينغدون”
  • Belarusian: “Абінгдан”
  • Catalan: “Abingdon”
  • Cebuano: “Abingdon”
  • Chechen: “Абингдон”
  • Chinese: “Abingdon”
  • Chinese: “阿宾登”
  • Chinese: “阿賓登”
  • Czech: “Abingdon”
  • Dagbani: “Abingdon”
  • Danish: “Abingdon”
  • Dutch: “Abingdon”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ابينجدون)”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ابينجدون”
  • French: “Abingdon”
  • German: “Abingdon”
  • Gilaki: “ابینگدون (ويرجينيا)”
  • Gilaki: “ابینگدون”
  • Haitian: “Abingdon, Vijini”
  • Haitian: “Abingdon”
  • Hebrew: “אבינגדון”
  • Hungarian: “Abingdon”
  • Irish: “Abingdon”
  • Italian: “Abingdon”
  • Japanese: “アビンドン”
  • Korean: “애빙던”
  • Ladin: “Abingdon”
  • Lithuanian: “Abingdonas”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Abingdon”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Abingdon (Virginia)”
  • Norwegian: “Abingdon”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Abingdon”
  • Persian: “ابینگدام، ویرجینیا”
  • Persian: “ابینگدام”
  • Persian: “ابینگدان”
  • Polish: “Abingdon”
  • Portuguese: “Abingdon”
  • Russian: “Абингдон”
  • Serbian: “Абингдон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Abingdon, Virginia”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Abingdon”
  • Slovenian: “Abingdon”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آبینقدون، ویرجینیا”
  • Spanish: “Abingdon, Virginia”
  • Spanish: “Abingdon”
  • Swedish: “Abingdon, Virginia”
  • Swedish: “Abingdon”
  • Talysh: “Abingdon”
  • Talysh: “Abinqdon”
  • Tatar: “Абингдон”
  • Ukrainian: “Абінгдон”
  • Uzbek: “Abingdon”
  • Volapük: “Abingdon”
  • Welsh: “Abingdon, Virginia”
  • Welsh: “Abingdon”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Abingdon City Hall and Virginia Highlands Festival.

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