Richmond
Richmond is the capital of Virginia. Richmond has a population of 227,000 and the adjacent counties of Henrico and Chesterfield combine to create a local population of more than 1.3 million people.Photo: Morgan Riley, CC BY 3.0.
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Popular Destinations
Downtown Richmond
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The Downtown district of Richmond includes the business district, Shockoe, Jackson Ward and Tobacco Row.
The Fan
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The Fan is a district in Richmond, Virginia. It is named The Fan because of the way the roads fan out to the west from N.
Destinations
West End
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The West End is a district within, and west of, the city of Richmond, Virginia and includes both the West End and Far West End/Innsbrook area.
Northside
The Northside is an area composed of northern Richmond, Virginia and some parts of Henrico County, Virginia.East End
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East End is a district in Richmond, Virginia. This includes historic neighborhoods in Richmond such…
Southside
The Southside of Richmond is an area of the Metropolitan Statistical Area surrounding Richmond, Virginia.Notable Places in the Area
Virginia State Capitol
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The Virginia State Capitol is the seat of state government of the Commonwealth of Virginia, located in Richmond, the state capital.
Altria Theater
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The Altria Theater in Richmond, Virginia, United States is a theater at the southwest corner of Monroe Park on the campus of Virginia Commonwealth University, and is the largest venue of Richmond CenterStage's performing arts complex.
Edgar Allan Poe Museum
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The Poe Museum or the Edgar Allan Poe Museum, is a museum located in the Shockoe Bottom neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia, United States, dedicated to American writer Edgar Allan Poe.
Localities in the Area
Montrose
Montrose is a census-designated place in Henrico County, Virginia, United States.Randolph
Randolph is a historically black middle class neighborhood located within the West End of Richmond, Virginia.Shockoe Bottom
Shockoe Bottom historically known as Shockoe Valley, is an area in Richmond, Virginia, just east of downtown, along the James River.Richmond
- Type: City with 227,000 residents
- Description: capital city of Virginia, United States of America
- Postal codes: 23218-23225, 23232, 23241, 23249, 23260, 23261, 23269, 23274, 23276, 23278, 23279, 23282, 23284-23286, 23290-23293, 23295 and 23298
- Categories: independent city, state or insular area capital of the United States, city in the United States and locality
- Location: Central Virginia, Virginia, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.5385° or 37° 32' 19" northLongitude
-77.4343° or 77° 26' 3" westPopulation
227,000Elevation
64 metres (210 feet)IATA airport code
RICUnited Nations Location Code
US RICOpen Location Code
8794GHQ8+C7OpenStreetMap ID
node 2592301390OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
4781708Wikidata ID
Q43421Richmond Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Richmond, Virginië
- Afrikaans: Richmond
- Albanian: Richmond, Virginia
- Amharic: ሪችመንድ
- Arabic: Richmond, Virginia
- Arabic: ريتشموند
- Arabic: ريتشموند، فرجينيا
- Arabic: ريتشموند، فيرجينيا
- Arabic: ريتشموند، ڤرجينيا
- Arabic: ريشموند
- Aragonese: Richmond
- Armenian: Ռիչմոնդ
- Asturian: Richmond
- Azerbaijani: Riçmond
- Basque: Richmond
- Bavarian: Richmond, Virginia
- Bavarian: Richmond City
- Belarusian: Рычманд (Вірджынія)
- Belarusian: Рычманд
- Bengali: রিচমন্ড, ভার্জিনিয়া
- Bosnian: Richmond
- Breton: Richmond
- Bulgarian: Ричмънд (Вирджиния)
- Bulgarian: Ричмънд
- Catalan: Richmond
- Cebuano: City of Richmond
- Cebuano: Richmond (kapital sa estado sa Estados Unidos, Virginia)
- Cebuano: Richmond
- Central Kurdish: ڕیچمەند، ڤیرجینیا
- Chechen: Ричмонд (Виргини)
- Chechen: Ричмонд
- Chinese: Richmond
- Chinese: 列治文
- Chinese: 里士满/里奇蒙
- Chinese: 里士满
- Chinese: 里奇蒙
- Cornish: Richmond
- Croatian: Richmond, Virginia
- Croatian: Richmond
- Czech: Richmond
- Danish: Richmond
- Dutch: Richmond
- English: Richmond, VA
- English: Richmond, Virginia
- English: Richmond City
- Esperanto: Richmond
- Esperanto: Riĉmondo
- Estonian: Richmond
- Extremaduran: Richmond
- Faroese: Richmond
- Finnish: Richmond
- French: Municipalité de Richmond
- French: Richmond
- Galician: Richmond, Virxinia
- Galician: Richmond
- Galician: ريچمؤند، ويرجينيا
- Georgian: რიჩმონდი
- German: Richmond
- German: Richmond, VA
- German: Richmond, Virginia
- Gilaki: ریچموند
- Gothic: 𐍂𐌹𐍃𐌾𐌼𐌰𐌿𐌽𐌳
- Greek: Ρίτσμοντ
- Gujarati: રિચમંડ
- Haitian: Richmond, Vijini
- Haitian: Richmond
- Hebrew: ריצ'מונד
- Hebrew: ריצמונד
- Hindi: केनरा बैंक
- Hindi: रिचमंड, वर्जीनिया
- Hungarian: Richmond
- Icelandic: Richmond
- Ido: Richmond
- Iloko: Richmond
- Indonesian: Richmond, VA
- Indonesian: Richmond, Virginia
- Indonesian: Richmond
- Indonesian: Richmond City
- Interlingua: Richmond
- Interlingua: Richmond Virginia
- Interlingue: Richmond
- Irish: Richmond, Virginia
- Irish: Richmond
- Italian: Richmond
- Japanese: リッチモンド
- Kannada: ರಿಚ್ಮಂಡ್
- Kirghiz: Ричмонд
- Korean: 리치먼드
- Korean: 리치몬드
- Kurdish: Richmond
- Ladin: Richmond (Virginia)
- Ladin: Richmond
- Lao: Richmond, Virginia
- Latin: Richmond
- Latin: Ricmondia
- Latvian: Richmond
- Latvian: Ričmonda
- Ligurian: Richmond
- Lingua Franca Nova: Richmond, Virginia
- Lithuanian: Ričmondas
- Lombard: Richmond
- Low German: Richmond
- Luxembourgish: Richmond
- Macedonian: Ричмонд
- Malagasy: Richmond, Virginia
- Malagasy: Richmond
- Malay: Richmond, Virginia
- Malay: Richmond
- Malayalam: റിച്ച്മണ്ട്, വിർജീനിയ
- Marathi: रिचमंड
- Min Nan Chinese: Richmond
- Moroccan Arabic: ريشموند
- Navajo: Tséchʼil Daalchíʼínílį́
- Nepali: रिचमन्द, भर्जिनिया
- Newari: रिचमन्ड
- Norwegian: Richmond
- Norwegian Bokmål: Richmond
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Richmond
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Richmond i Virginia
- Occitan (post 1500): Richmond
- Ossetian: Ричмонд
- Pali: रिचमन्ड
- Pampanga: Richmond, Virginia
- Pampanga: Richmond
- Papiamento: Richmond
- Persian: ریچموند
- Persian: ریچموند، ویرجینیا
- Piemontese: Richmond (Virginia)
- Piemontese: Richmond
- Polish: Richmond
- Portuguese: Richmond
- Portuguese: Richmond, Virgínia
- Quechua: Richmond
- Romanian: City of Richmond
- Romanian: Richmond, Virginia
- Romanian: Richmond
- Russian: Вирджиния Ричмонд
- Russian: Ричмонд, Вирджиния
- Russian: Ричмонд
- Russian: Ричмонд Вирджиния
- Samogitian: Ričmonds
- Sanskrit: रिच्मन्ड्
- Sardinian: Richmond
- Scots: Richmond
- Scottish Gaelic: Richmond, Virginia
- Scottish Gaelic: Richmond
- Serbian: Ричмонд
- Serbo-Croatian: Richmond, Virginia
- Sicilian: Richmond
- Silesian: Richmond
- Sinhala: රිච්මන්ඩ්
- Slovak: Richmond
- Slovenian: Richmond, Virginija
- Slovenian: Richmond
- South Azerbaijani: ریچموند، ویرجینیا
- Spanish: Ciudad de Richmond
- Spanish: Richmond
- Spanish: Richmond (Virginia)
- Swahili: Richmond
- Swedish: Richmond, Virginia
- Swedish: Richmond
- Tagalog: Richmond, Virginia
- Tagalog: Richmond
- Tajik: Ричмунд
- Tamil: ரிச்மண்ட்
- Tamil: ரிச்மன்ட்
- Tamil: ரிச்மாண்ட்
- Tatar: Ричмон
- Tatar: Ричмонд (Вирҗиния)
- Tatar: Ричмонд
- Telugu: రిచ్మండ్
- Thai: ริชมอนด์
- Turkish: Richmond, Virginia
- Turkish: Richmond
- Ukrainian: Ричмонд
- Ukrainian: Річмонд
- Urdu: رچمنڈ، ورجینیا
- Venetian: Richmond
- Vietnamese: Richmond, VA
- Vietnamese: Richmond, Virginia
- Vietnamese: Richmond
- Volapük: Richmond
- Waray (Philippines): Richmond
- Welsh: Richmond, Virginia
- Welsh: Richmond
- Western Frisian: Richmond
- Western Mari: Ричмонд
- Western Panjabi: رجمونڈ
- Western Panjabi: رچمنڈ
- Wu Chinese: 里士满 (弗吉尼亚州)
- Yue Chinese: 列治文
- Manchester
- None Such
- Shoccoe's
- Shockoe
- 里士满(弗吉尼亚州)
Popular Destinations in Central Virginia
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Richmond. Photo: jeff horne, CC BY 2.0.