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Lexington

Lexington is an independent city in the Commonwealth of , United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 7,320. It is the county seat of , although the two are separate jurisdictions, and is combined with it for statistical purposes by the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
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  • Type: Town with 6,740 residents
  • Description: independent city in Virginia, United States
  • Also known as: “Lexington, VA” and “Lexington, Virginia”
  • Postal code: 24450

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lexington Presbyterian Church and Stonewall Jackson House.

Church
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is a historic Presbyterian church building at Main and Nelson Streets in Lexington, Virginia. It was designed by architect Thomas U.

Museum
Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.
The , located at 8 East Washington Street in the Historic District of Lexington, Virginia, was the residence of Confederate general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson from 1858 to 1861.

Church
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, originally known as Lexington African Baptist Church, is a historic Baptist church building in the city of Lexington, , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mechanicsville and Buena Vista.

Locality
is an unincorporated community in , United States. is 3 miles southwest of . is situated 5 miles south of Lexington.

Town
Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.
is an independent city located in the region of in the United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,641. is situated 6 miles southeast of Lexington.

Lexington

Latitude
37.78402° or 37° 47′ 3″ north
Longitude
-79.44282° or 79° 26′ 34″ west
Population
6,740
Elevation
1,063 feet (324 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US LXH
Open location code
8792QHM4+JV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158633313
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4769339
Wiki­data ID
Q501761
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Lexington” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Lexington, Virginië”
  • Afrikaans: “Lexington”
  • Arabic: “كسينغتون (فيرجينيا)”
  • Arabic: “كسينغتون”
  • Armenian: “Լեքսինգտոն”
  • Azerbaijani: “Leksinqton”
  • Basque: “Lexington city konderria”
  • Bavarian: “Lexington City”
  • Bavarian: “Lexington, Virginia”
  • Belarusian: “Лексінгтан”
  • Catalan: “Lexington”
  • Cebuano: “Lexington (kapital sa kondado sa Estados Unidos, Virginia)”
  • Cebuano: “Lexington”
  • Chechen: “Лексингтон”
  • Chinese: “列克星敦”
  • Chinese: “勒星頓”
  • Chinese: “萊辛頓”
  • Czech: “Lexington”
  • Danish: “Lexington”
  • Dutch: “Lexington”
  • Finnish: “Lexington”
  • French: “Lexington”
  • French: “Municipalité de Lexington”
  • Georgian: “ლექსინგტონი”
  • German: “Lexington”
  • German: “Shrine of the South”
  • Gilaki: “لکسینگتن”
  • Greek: “Λέξινγκτον”
  • Haitian: “Lexington, Vijini”
  • Haitian: “Lexington”
  • Hebrew: “לקסינגטון”
  • Hungarian: “Lexington”
  • Indonesian: “Lexington, Virginia”
  • Indonesian: “Lexington”
  • Irish: “Lexington”
  • Italian: “Lexington”
  • Japanese: “レキシントン”
  • Japanese: “レクシントン”
  • Korean: “렉싱턴”
  • Ladin: “Lexington”
  • Low German: “Lexington”
  • Luxembourgish: “Lexington”
  • Malagasy: “Lexington, Virginia”
  • Malagasy: “Lexington”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lexington”
  • Norwegian: “Lexington”
  • Persian: “لکسینگتون، ویرجینیا”
  • Persian: “لکسینگتون”
  • Polish: “Lexington”
  • Portuguese: “Lexington”
  • Russian: “Лексингтон”
  • Serbian: “Лексингтон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lexington, Virginia”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lexington”
  • Silesian: “Lexington”
  • Slovak: “Lexington”
  • Slovenian: “Lexington”
  • Spanish: “Lexington (Virginia)”
  • Spanish: “Lexington”
  • Swedish: “Lexington, Virginia”
  • Swedish: “Lexington”
  • Talysh: “Leksington”
  • Tatar: “Лексингтон (Вирджиния)”
  • Tatar: “Лексингтон”
  • Turkish: “Lexington, Virginia”
  • Turkish: “Lexington”
  • Ukrainian: “Лексінгтон”
  • Urdu: “لیکسنگٹن، ورجینیا”
  • Urdu: “لیکسنگٹن”
  • Vietnamese: “Lexington, Virginia”
  • Vietnamese: “Lexington”
  • Volapük: “Lexington”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lexington, Virginia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lexington”
  • Welsh: “Lexington”
  • “Lexington”

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