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OLD DOMINION AREA: 105,586 sq km (40,767 sq mi). POPULATION: 6,552,000. CAPITAL: Richmond, pop. 202,300. ECONOMY: Industry: transportation equipment, textiles, food processing, printing, electric equipment, chemicals. Agriculture: cattle, poultry, dairy products, tobacco, hogs, soybeans. PCI: $22,590. ADMISSION: 10th of 13 original states.
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In 1607 English pioneers established the first permanent English settlement in America at Jamestown. Almost 400 years later officials in many Tidewater towns strive to balance development with conservation of wetlands. Busy ports cluster around the nation’s leading coal exporter, Hampton Roads—Norfolk is home base for the U.S. Navy’s Atlantic Fleet, and shipbuilding thrives at Newport News. In northern Virginia the booming Washington metropolitan area invades rolling countryside.
Text source: National Geographic Atlas of the World Revised Sixth Edition, 1995
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