Chesapeake

Chesapeake is a town of 245,000 people in the region of . Chesapeake is a diverse city in which a few urban areas are located; it also has many square miles of protected farmland, forests, and wetlands, including a substantial portion of the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge.
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  • City with 255,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 10 feet (3 metres)
  • Description: independent city in Virginia, United States
  • Postal codes: 23320-23328
  • Also known as
    “Chesapeack”
    “Chesapeake, VA”
    “Chesapeake, Virginia”
    “City of Chesapeake”
    “Norfolk County”
    “South Norfolk”
  • Neighbors

Places of Interest

Highlights include Great Bridge Bridge and Chesapeake Regional Medical Center.
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Chesapeake

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Latitude
36.7168° or 36° 43′ 1″ north
Longitude
-76.2494° or 76° 14′ 58″ west
UN/LOCODE
US UFG
Open location code
8785PQ82+P6
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Chesapeake” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تشيسابيك”
  • Armenian: “Չեսափիք”
  • Asturian: “Chesapeake”
  • Basque: “Chesapeake city konderria”
  • Basque: “Chesapeake”
  • Bavarian: “Chesapeake”
  • Belarusian: “Чэсапік”
  • Breton: “Chesapeake”
  • Bulgarian: “Чесапийк”
  • Catalan: “Chesapeake”
  • Cebuano: “Chesapeake”
  • Central Kurdish: “چێسپیک”
  • Chechen: “Чесапик”
  • Chinese: “切萨皮克”
  • Chinese: “車薩比”
  • Croatian: “Chesapeake, Virginia”
  • Croatian: “Chesapeake”
  • Czech: “Chesapeake”
  • Dagbani: “Chesapeake”
  • Danish: “Chesapeake”
  • Dutch: “Chesapeake”
  • Esperanto: “Chesapeake (Viriginio)”
  • Esperanto: “Chesapeake”
  • Finnish: “Chesapeake”
  • French: “Chesapeake”
  • French: “Municipalité de Chesapeake”
  • Galician: “Chesapeake, Virxinia”
  • Galician: “Chesapeake”
  • Georgian: “ჩესაპიკ”
  • German: “Chesapeake”
  • Gilaki: “چسپيک (ويرجينيا)”
  • Gilaki: “چسپيک”
  • Greek: “Τσέσαπικ, Βιρτζίνια”
  • Greek: “Τσέσαπικ”
  • Haitian: “Chesapeake, Vijini”
  • Haitian: “Chesapeake”
  • Hebrew: “צ’ספיק”
  • Hungarian: “Chesapeake”
  • Icelandic: “Chesapeake”
  • Indonesian: “Chesapeake, Virginia”
  • Indonesian: “Chesapeake”
  • Irish: “Chesapeake, Virginia”
  • Irish: “Chesapeake”
  • Italian: “Chesapeake”
  • Japanese: “チェサピーク”
  • Kannada: “ಚೆಸ್ಪೀಕ್, ವರ್ಜೀನಿಯಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಚೆಸ್ಪೀಕ್”
  • Korean: “체서피크”
  • Ladin: “Chesapeake”
  • Latin: “Cessapica”
  • Latvian: “Česapīka”
  • Lithuanian: “Česapikas”
  • Low German: “Chesapeake”
  • Malagasy: “Chesapeake, Virginia”
  • Malagasy: “Chesapeake”
  • Malayalam: “ചെസാപീക്ക്”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Chesapeake”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chesapeake”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chesapeake”
  • Norwegian: “Chesapeake”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Chesapeake”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ceosapēac (Uirginiæ)”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ceosapēac on Fǣmnelande”
  • Ossetian: “Чесапик”
  • Persian: “چساپیک، ویرجینیا”
  • Persian: “چساپیک”
  • Piemontese: “Chesapeake”
  • Polish: “Chesapeake”
  • Portuguese: “Chesapeake”
  • Romanian: “Chesapeake, Virginia”
  • Romanian: “Chesapeake”
  • Russian: “Чесапик”
  • Scots: “Chesapeake”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Chesapeake, Virginia”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Chesapeake”
  • Serbian: “Чесапик”
  • Serbian: “Чесепик”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Chesapeake, Virginia”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Chesapeake”
  • Slovak: “Chesapeake”
  • South Azerbaijani: “چزئیپئیک، ویرجینیا”
  • Spanish: “Chesapeake (Virginia)”
  • Spanish: “Chesapeake”
  • Swahili: “Chesapeake, Virginia”
  • Swahili: “Chesapeake”
  • Swedish: “Chesapeake, Virginia”
  • Swedish: “Chesapeake”
  • Tagalog: “Chesapeake, Virginia”
  • Tagalog: “Chesapeake”
  • Talysh: “Cesapik”
  • Talysh: “Çesapik”
  • Tatar: “Чесапик”
  • Turkish: “Chesapeake, Virginia”
  • Turkish: “Chesapeake”
  • Ukrainian: “Чесапік”
  • Urdu: “چساپیک، ورجینیا”
  • Urdu: “چساپیک”
  • Vietnamese: “Chesapeake, Virginia”
  • Vietnamese: “Chesapeake”
  • Volapük: “Chesapeake”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Chesapeake, Virginia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Chesapeake”
  • Welsh: “Chesapeake, Virginia”
  • Welsh: “Chesapeake”
  • Wu Chinese: “切萨皮克(弗吉尼亚州)”
  • Wu Chinese: “切萨皮克”

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