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Williamsburg

Williamsburg is a city in southeast . Settled in 1632, it was the capital of Virginia from 1699 to 1779 and in 1926, John D. Rockefeller Jr commissioned a restoration project to bring Williamsburg back to its former colonial glory.
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  • Type: City with 15,400 residents
  • Description: independent city in Virginia, United States
  • Also known as: “Williamsbourg”, “Williamsburg, VA”, and “Williamsburg, Virginia”
  • Postal codes: 23186 and 23187

Places of Interest

Highlights include Colonial Williamsburg and Governor’s Palace.

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is a "living-history museum" located in a historic district in Williamsburg, . Encompassing 301 acres, 's Historic Area re-creates 18th-century Williamsburg as it appeared preceding and during the American Revolution.

Historic building
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The Governor's Palace in Williamsburg, Virginia, was the official residence of the royal governors of the Colony of Virginia. It was also a home for two of Virginia's post-colonial governors, Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson, until the capital was moved to in 1780, and with it the governor's residence.

Historic building
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The at Williamsburg, Virginia, housed both houses of the Virginia General Assembly, the Governor's Council and the House of Burgesses of the colony of Virginia from 1705, six years after the colonial capital was relocated there from nearby , until 1780, when the capital was relocated to .

Williamsburg

Latitude
37.2709° or 37° 16′ 15″ north
Longitude
-76.7074° or 76° 42′ 27″ west
Population
15,400
Elevation
82 feet (25 metres)
IATA airport code
ZWB
United Nations Location Code
US WLG
Open location code
879577CV+92
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158360216
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4793846
Wiki­data ID
Q492346
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Williamsburg” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ويليامزبرغ”
  • Armenian: “Ուիլյամսբուրգ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Vilyamsberq”
  • Basque: “Williamsburg”
  • Bavarian: “Williamsburg City”
  • Bavarian: “Williamsburg, Virginia”
  • Bulgarian: “Уилямсбърг”
  • Catalan: “Williamsburg (Virgínia)”
  • Catalan: “Williamsburg, Virgínia”
  • Catalan: “Williamsburg”
  • Cebuano: “Williamsburg (kapital sa kondado sa Estados Unidos, Virginia)”
  • Cebuano: “Williamsburg”
  • Chechen: “Вильямсбург”
  • Chinese: “威廉斯堡”
  • Czech: “Williamsburg”
  • Dagbani: “Williamsburg”
  • Danish: “Williamsburg”
  • Dutch: “Williamsburg”
  • Esperanto: “Williamsburg”
  • Finnish: “Williamsburg”
  • French: “Middle Plantation”
  • French: “Municipalité de Williamsburg”
  • French: “Williamsbourg (Virginie)”
  • French: “Williamsburg”
  • Georgian: “უილიამსბურგი (ვირჯინია)”
  • Georgian: “უილიამსბურგი”
  • German: “Colonial Williamsburg”
  • German: “Williamsburg”
  • Gilaki: “ويليامزبرگ (ويرجينيا)”
  • Gilaki: “ويليامزبرگ”
  • Haitian: “Williamsburg, Vijini”
  • Haitian: “Williamsburg”
  • Hebrew: “ויליאמסבורג”
  • Hungarian: “Williamsburg”
  • Irish: “Williamsburg”
  • Italian: “Williamsburg”
  • Japanese: “ウィリアムズバーグ”
  • Korean: “윌리엄스버그”
  • Ladin: “Williamsburg”
  • Latin: “Gulielmoburgum (Virginia)”
  • Latin: “Gulielmoburgum”
  • Low German: “Williamsburg”
  • Malagasy: “Williamsburg, Virginia”
  • Malagasy: “Williamsburg”
  • Malayalam: “വില്യംസ്ബർഗ്”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Williamsburg”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Williamsburg i Virginia”
  • Norwegian: “Williamsburg”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Willelmesburg on Fǣmnelande”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Willelmesburg”
  • Ossetian: “Уильямсберг”
  • Persian: “ویلیامزبرگ، ویرجینیا”
  • Persian: “ویلیامزبرگ”
  • Polish: “Williamsburg”
  • Portuguese: “Williamsburg”
  • Romanian: “Williamsburg”
  • Russian: “Вильямсбург (Виргиния)”
  • Russian: “Уильямсберг (Виргиния)”
  • Russian: “Уильямсберг”
  • Scots: “Williamsburg”
  • Serbian: “Вилијамсбург”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Williamsburg, Virginia”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Williamsburg”
  • Slovak: “Williamsburg”
  • Slovenian: “Williamsburg”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ویلیامزبورق، ویرجینیا”
  • Spanish: “Williamsburg (Virginia)”
  • Spanish: “Williamsburg”
  • Swedish: “Williamsburg, Virginia”
  • Swedish: “Williamsburg”
  • Tagalog: “Williamsburg, Virginia”
  • Tagalog: “Williamsburg”
  • Talysh: “Villiamsberg”
  • Tatar: “Вильямсберг”
  • Tatar: “Вильямсбург”
  • Turkish: “Williamsburg, Virginia”
  • Turkish: “Williamsburg”
  • Ukrainian: “Вільямсбург”
  • Urdu: “ویلمزبرگ، ورجینیا”
  • Urdu: “ویلمزبرگ”
  • Vietnamese: “Williamsburg, Virginia”
  • Vietnamese: “Williamsburg”
  • Volapük: “Williamsburg”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Williamsburg, Virginia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Williamsburg”
  • Welsh: “Williamsburg”

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