Newport News

Newport News is a city in in the metropolitan area. It's on the James River, and much of the area has been developed into a city starting in the late 19th century.
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  • Type: City with 186,000 residents
  • Description: independent city in Virginia, United States
  • Also known as: “New Port Newce”, “New Porte Newce”, “Newport Ness”, “Newport News, VA”, “Newport News, Virginia”, “Newport Newse”, “Newport’s News”, “Newportes Newce”, “Newportes Newes”, “Newports News”, “Point Hope”, “Pointe Hope”, “Porte Newce”, and “The New Port of the Newces”
  • Postal codes: 23601-23603, 23605-23609, 23612, and 23628
  • Neighbors: , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Newport News Public Library and King-Lincoln Park.

Library
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The first , renamed West Avenue Library, now NNPLS Technical Services, in the System, was opened on October 14, 1929 at the corner of West Avenue and 30th Street in the City of Newport News, Virginia.

Park
is an 18.8 acre in Newport News, Virginia. It is maintained by the Newport News Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism.

Church
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is a historic Catholic church complex in Newport News, Virginia, United States. It was built 1916–1917 and is a 1+1⁄2-story, brick, Classical Revival-style longitudinal-plan church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wythe and Hilton Village.

Suburb
is a in , along the water's edge of , at the end of Virginia's Lower Peninsula. It is named after one of the signers of the United States Declaration of Independence, George .

Suburb
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is a planned English-village-style neighborhood in Newport News, Virginia. Recognized as a pioneering development in urban planning, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Neighborhood
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is a national historic district located at , United States. The district was part of a planned community initiated by under New Deal legislation.

Newport News

Latitude
36.9775° or 36° 58′ 39″ north
Longitude
-76.4298° or 76° 25′ 47″ west
Population
186,000
Elevation
20 feet (6 metres)
IATA airport codes
ZWW and PHF
United Nations Location Code
US NNS
Open location code
8785XHHC+23
Open­Street­Map ID
node 317004626
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4776024
Wiki­data ID
Q335017
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Armenian—“Newport News” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “نيوبورت نيوز (فيرجينيا)”
  • Arabic: “نيوبورت نيوز”
  • Armenian: “Նյուպորտ Նյուս”
  • Armenian: “Նյուփորտ Նյուս”
  • Asturian: “Newport News (Virxinia)”
  • Asturian: “Newport News”
  • Balinese: “Newport News, Virginia”
  • Basque: “Newport News”
  • Bavarian: “Newport News”
  • Belarusian: “Ньюпарт-Ньюс”
  • Bengali: “নিউপোর্ট নিউজ, ভার্জিনিয়া”
  • Bengali: “নিউপোর্ট নিউজ”
  • Breton: “Newport News”
  • Bulgarian: “Нюпорт Нюз”
  • Catalan: “Newport News”
  • Cebuano: “Newport News”
  • Central Kurdish: “نیوپۆرت نیووز”
  • Chechen: “Ньюпорт-Ньюс”
  • Chinese: “紐波特紐斯”
  • Chinese: “纽波特纽斯”
  • Czech: “Newport News”
  • Dagbani: “Newport News”
  • Danish: “Newport News”
  • Dutch: “Newport News”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نيوبورت نيوز (ڤيرچينيا)”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نيوبورت نيوز”
  • Esperanto: “Newport News”
  • Estonian: “Newport News”
  • Finnish: “Newport News”
  • French: “Municipalité de Newport News”
  • French: “Newport News”
  • Georgian: “ნიუპორტ-ნიუსი”
  • German: “Newport News”
  • Gilaki: “نيۊپؤرت نيۊز (ويرجينيا)”
  • Gilaki: “نيۊپؤرت نيۊز”
  • Greek: “Νιούπορτ Νιούζ”
  • Haitian: “Newport News, Vijini”
  • Haitian: “Newport News”
  • Hebrew: “ניופורט ניוז”
  • Hungarian: “Newport News, Virginia”
  • Hungarian: “Newport News”
  • Icelandic: “Newport News”
  • Irish: “Newport News, Virginia”
  • Irish: “Newport News”
  • Italian: “Newport News”
  • Japanese: “ニューポート・ニューズ”
  • Japanese: “ニューポートニューズ”
  • Korean: “뉴포트뉴스”
  • Ladin: “Newport News”
  • Latvian: “Ņūportņūsa”
  • Latvian: “Ņūportņūza”
  • Lithuanian: “Niuport Niusas”
  • Low German: “Newport News”
  • Malagasy: “Newport News, Virginia”
  • Malagasy: “Newport News”
  • Malayalam: “ന്യൂപോർട്ട് ന്യൂസ്”
  • Northern Frisian: “Newport News”
  • Northern Luri: “نیوپورت نیوز”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Newport News”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Newport News”
  • Norwegian: “Newport News”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Nīweportnīwes”
  • Ossetian: “Ньюпорт-Ньюс”
  • Persian: “نیوپورت نیوز، ویرجینیا”
  • Persian: “نیوپورت نیوز”
  • Piemontese: “Newport News”
  • Polish: “Newport News”
  • Portuguese: “Newport News”
  • Russian: “Ньюпорт-Ньюс”
  • Scots: “Newport News”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Newport News, Virginia”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Newport News”
  • Serbian: “Њупорт Њуз”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Newport News, Virginia”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Newport News”
  • Slovak: “Newport News”
  • Slovenian: “Newport News”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نیوپورت نیوس، ویرجینیا”
  • Spanish: “Newport News (Virginia)”
  • Spanish: “Newport News”
  • Swahili: “Newport News, Virginia”
  • Swahili: “Newport News”
  • Swedish: “Newport News”
  • Tagalog: “Newport News, Virginia”
  • Tagalog: “Newport News”
  • Talysh: “Njuport Njus”
  • Tatar: “Ньюпорт-Ньюс”
  • Turkish: “Newport News, Virginia”
  • Turkish: “Newport News”
  • Ukrainian: “Ньюпорт-Ньюс”
  • Ukrainian: “Нюпорт Нюз”
  • Urdu: “نیوپورٹ نیوز، ورجینیا”
  • Urdu: “نیوپورٹ نیوز”
  • Vietnamese: “Newport News, Virginia”
  • Vietnamese: “Newport News”
  • Volapük: “Newport News”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Newport News, Virginia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Newport News”
  • Welsh: “Newport News, Virginia”
  • Welsh: “Newport News”
  • Western Armenian: “Նիւփորթ Նիւզ”

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