Portsmouth
Portsmouth is an independent city in southeast Virginia, United States. It lies across the Elizabeth River from Norfolk. As of the 2020 census, the population was 97,915.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: City with 97,900 residents
- Description: independent city in Virginia, United States
- Postal codes: 23701-23705 and 23707-23709
- Neighbors: Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk and Suffolk
Notable Places in the Area
USS Wisconsin
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USS Wisconsin is an Iowa-class battleship built for the United States Navy in the 1940s and is currently a museum ship.
USS Norfolk
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The second USS Norfolk was the first destroyer leader of the United States Navy.
Norfolk Naval Shipyard
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Norfolk Naval Shipyard, often called the Norfolk Navy Yard and abbreviated as NNSY, is a U.S. Navy facility in Portsmouth, Virginia, for building, remodeling and repairing the Navy's ships.
Localities in the Area
Berkley
Photo: Jmarian7, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Berkley was an incorporated town in Norfolk County, Virginia.
Portsmouth Olde Towne Historic District
Photo: KLOTZPLATE, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Portsmouth Olde Towne Historic District, is a national historic district located at Portsmouth, Virginia.
Portsmouth
- Categories: independent city and locality
- Location: Virginia, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.832° or 36° 49' 55" northLongitude
-76.2977° or 76° 17' 52" westPopulation
97,900Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)United Nations Location Code
US PTMOpen Location Code
8785RPJ2+RWOpenStreetMap ID
node 158442346OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
4779999Wikidata ID
Q342803Portsmouth Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: Portsmouth, Virginia
- Arabic: بورتسموث
- Basque: Portsmouth
- Bavarian: Portsmouth, Virginia
- Bavarian: Portsmouth
- Belarusian: Портсмут
- Bengali: পোর্টসমাউথ, ভার্জিনিয়া
- Bengali: পোর্টসমাউথ
- Bulgarian: Портсмът
- Catalan: Portsmouth
- Cebuano: City of Portsmouth
- Cebuano: Portsmouth (kapital sa kondado sa Estados Unidos, Virginia)
- Cebuano: Portsmouth
- Chechen: Портсмут (Виргини)
- Chechen: Портсмут
- Chinese: 弗吉尼亞州的朴茨茅斯
- Chinese: 朴次茅斯
- Croatian: Portsmouth, Virginia
- Czech: Portsmouth
- Danish: Portsmouth
- Dutch: Portsmouth
- English: Portsmouth, VA
- English: Portsmouth, Virginia
- Esperanto: Portsmouth
- Estonian: Portsmouth
- Finnish: Portsmouth
- French: Municipalité de Portsmouth
- French: Portsmouth
- German: Portsmouth
- Greek: Πόρτσμουθ
- Gujarati: પોર્ટ્સમાઉથ
- Haitian: Portsmouth, Vijini
- Hebrew: פורטסמות'
- Hebrew: פורטסמות
- Hindi: पोर्ट्समाउथ
- Hungarian: Portsmouth
- Indonesian: Portsmouth
- Irish: Portsmouth, Virginia
- Italian: Portsmouth
- Japanese: ポーツマス
- Kannada: ಪೋರ್ಟ್ಸ್ಮೌತ್
- Korean: 포츠머스
- Ladin: Portsmouth (Virginia)
- Ladin: Portsmouth
- Latvian: Portsmuta
- Lithuanian: Porstmoutas
- Low German: Portsmouth
- Malagasy: Portsmouth, Virginia
- Malay: Portsmouth
- Malayalam: പോർട്സ്മൗത്ത്
- Maltese: Portsmouth
- Marathi: पोर्ट्समाउथ
- Norwegian: Portsmouth
- Norwegian Bokmål: Portsmouth
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Portesmuða
- Persian: پورتسموث، ویرجینیا
- Persian: پورثموث، ویرجینیا
- Polish: Portsmouth
- Portuguese: Portsmouth
- Russian: Портсмут
- Scots: Portsmouth
- Serbian: Портсмут
- Serbo-Croatian: Portsmouth, Virginia
- Silesian: Portsmouth
- Sinhala: පොර්ට්ස්මවුත්
- Slovak: Portsmouth
- Slovenian: Portsmouth
- South Azerbaijani: پورتسموت، ویرجینیا
- Spanish: Portsmouth
- Spanish: Portsmouth (Virginia)
- Swahili: Portsmouth, Virginia
- Swedish: Portsmouth, Virginia
- Swedish: Portsmouth
- Tagalog: Portsmouth, Virginia
- Tamil: போர்ட்ஸமௌத்
- Tatar: Портсмут (Вирджиния)
- Tatar: Портсмут
- Telugu: పోర్ట్స్మౌత్
- Thai: พอร์ตสมัท
- Turkish: Portsmouth, Virginia
- Turkish: Portsmouth
- Ukrainian: Портсмут
- Urdu: پورٹسماؤت، ورجینیا
- Vietnamese: Portsmouth, Virginia
- Vietnamese: Portsmouth
- Volapük: Portsmouth
- Waray (Philippines): Portsmouth, Virginia
- Welsh: Portsmouth
Other Places Named Portsmouth
Localities in the Area
- Harbor VistaNeighbourhood
- DowntownQuarter
- Olde Towne CommonsNeighbourhood
- Columbia CommonsNeighbourhood
- Columbia PlaceNeighbourhood
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