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Hampton

Hampton is an independent city in , United States. The population was 137,148 at the 2020 census, making it the seventh-most populous city in Virginia.
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  • Type: City with 137,000 residents
  • Description: independent city in Virginia, United States
  • Also known as: “Elizabeth City”, “Hampton Town”, “Hampton, VA”, “Hampton, Virginia”, “Kecoughtan”, “Kiccowtan”, “Kichotan”, and “Southampton”
  • Postal codes: 23630, 23661, 23663-23670, and 23681
  • Neighbors: , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Virginia Air and Space Science Center and Hampton University Museum.

Museum
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The is a museum and educational facility in Hampton, Virginia that also serves as the visitors center for NASA's and Langley Air Force Base.

Museum
Founded in 1868 on the campus of , the is the oldest African-American museum in the and the oldest museum in Virginia.

Stadium
Photo: Sixman, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a 7,200-seat multi-purpose arena in Hampton, Virginia. It was built in 1993 and is home to the Pirates basketball team.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fort Monroe and Phoebus.

Quarter
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is a former military installation in Hampton, Virginia, at , the southern tip of the Virginia Peninsula, United States. It is currently managed by partnership between the Authority for the Commonwealth of Virginia, the National Park Service, and the city of Hampton as the National Monument.

Suburb
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is a formerly incorporated town now part of the present-day city of Hampton, Virginia, on the Virginia Peninsula. In 1900, it was named in honor of local businessman Harrison , who is credited with convincing the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway to extend its tracks to the town from Newport News.

Neighborhood
In the seventeenth century, was the name of the settlement now known as Hampton, Virginia. In the early twentieth century, it was also the name of a town nearby in Elizabeth City County. It was annexed into the City of Newport News in 1927.

Hampton

Latitude
37.0264° or 37° 1′ 35″ north
Longitude
-76.3443° or 76° 20′ 39″ west
Population
137,000
Elevation
3 feet (1 metre)
IATA airport codes
PHF and LFI
Open location code
87952MG4+H7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 157628268
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4762894
Wiki­data ID
Q342043
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Hampton” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “هامبتون”
  • Armenian: “Հեմփթոն”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hampton”
  • Basque: “Hampton”
  • Bavarian: “Hampton City”
  • Bavarian: “Hampton, Virginia”
  • Belarusian: “Хэмптан (Віргінія)”
  • Belarusian: “Хэмптан”
  • Bengali: “হ্যাম্পটন, ভার্জিনিয়া”
  • Bengali: “হ্যাম্পটন”
  • Breton: “Hampton”
  • Bulgarian: “Хамптън”
  • Catalan: “Hampton (Virgínia)”
  • Catalan: “Hampton, Virgínia”
  • Catalan: “Hampton”
  • Cebuano: “Hampton”
  • Central Kurdish: “ھامپتن، ڤیرجینیا”
  • Chechen: “Гэмптон”
  • Chinese: “汉普顿”
  • Chinese: “漢普頓”
  • Czech: “Hampton”
  • Dagbani: “Hampton”
  • Danish: “Hampton”
  • Dutch: “Hampton”
  • Esperanto: “Hampton”
  • Finnish: “Hampton”
  • French: “Hampton”
  • French: “Municipalité de Hampton”
  • Galician: “Hampton, Virxinia”
  • Galician: “Hampton”
  • German: “Hampton”
  • Gilaki: “همپتؤن (ويرجينيا)”
  • Gilaki: “همپتؤن”
  • Greek: “Χάμπτον”
  • Haitian: “Hampton, Vijini”
  • Haitian: “Hampton”
  • Hebrew: “המפטון”
  • Hungarian: “Hampton”
  • Irish: “Hampton, Virginia”
  • Irish: “Hampton”
  • Italian: “Hampton”
  • Japanese: “ハンプトン (ヴァージニア州)”
  • Japanese: “ハンプトン (バージニア州)”
  • Japanese: “ハンプトン”
  • Korean: “햄프턴”
  • Ladin: “Hampton”
  • Lithuanian: “Hamptonas”
  • Low German: “Hampton”
  • Macedonian: “Хемптон”
  • Malagasy: “Hampton, Virginia”
  • Malagasy: “Hampton”
  • Malayalam: “ഹാംപ്റ്റൺ, വിർജീനിയ”
  • Malayalam: “ഹാംപ്റ്റൺ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hampton”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hampton”
  • Norwegian: “Hampton”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Hamtūn (Firginiæ)”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Hamtūn on Fǣmnelande”
  • Persian: “همپتون، ویرجینیا”
  • Persian: “همپتون”
  • Piemontese: “Hampton”
  • Polish: “Hampton”
  • Portuguese: “Hampton”
  • Russian: “Хамптон”
  • Russian: “Хэмптон”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Hampton”
  • Serbian: “Хемптон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hampton, Virginia”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hampton”
  • Slovak: “Hampton”
  • Slovenian: “Hampton”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هامپتون، ویرجینیا”
  • Spanish: “Hampton (Virginia)”
  • Spanish: “Hampton”
  • Swahili: “Hampton, Virginia”
  • Swahili: “Hampton”
  • Swedish: “Hampton, Virginia”
  • Swedish: “Hampton”
  • Tagalog: “Hampton, Virginia”
  • Tagalog: “Hampton”
  • Talysh: “Hampton”
  • Tatar: “Һәмптен”
  • Tatar: “Һәмптон (Вирҗиния)”
  • Tatar: “Һәмптон”
  • Turkish: “Hampton, Virginia”
  • Turkish: “Hampton”
  • Ukrainian: “Гемптон”
  • Urdu: “ہیمپٹن، ورجینیا”
  • Urdu: “ہیمپٹن”
  • Vietnamese: “Hampton, Virginia”
  • Vietnamese: “Hampton”
  • Volapük: “Hampton”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hampton, Virginia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hampton”
  • Welsh: “Hampton, Virginia”
  • Welsh: “Hampton”
  • “Hampton”

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