One of the States of the United States of America.
area of British North America which became part of the USA after 1783
a state in the eastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies; one of the Confederate States in the American Civil War
one of the British colonies that formed the United States
The Commonwealth of Virginia is a state in the southern United States. Named after the Virginia Mountains in England, this commonwealth was one of the original thirteen colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution. Virginia was the first part of the Americas to be continuously inhabited by English colonists from its founding as a European colony up to the American Revolution.