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West Virginia is the 10th-smallest state by area and ranks as the 12th-least populous state, with a population of 1,769,979 residents. [5] The capital and most populous city is Charleston with a population of 49,055. West Virginia was admitted to the Union on June 20, 1863, and was a key border state during the American Civil War.
Spruce Mountain is the tallest mountain in the state of West Virginia Back Allegheny Mountain Snowshoe Mountain is a ski resort in the Alleghenies of Pocahontas County. Mountains of West Virginia is a list of mountains in the U.S. state of West Virginia. This list includes mountains in the Appalachian range, which covers the entirety of the ...
The environment of West Virginia encompasses terrain and ecosystems ranging from plateaus to mountains. Most of West Virginia lies within the Appalachian mixed mesophytic forests ecoregion , while the higher elevations along the eastern border and in the panhandle lie within the Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests .
"The West Virginia Hills" was written in 1879 as a poem inspired by the scenery surrounding the Glenville area and put to music in 1885 by Henry Everett Engle. [1] The song was made one of West Virginia's state songs on February 3, 1961.
The relations between ancient Indonesia and Vietnam, particularly Southern Vietnam, began around the 7th century, since the era of the Champa, Srivijaya, and later Majapahit kingdoms. [1]: 225 In mid-11th century, Vietnamese king Ly Thanh Tong (r. 1054–1071) was said to have purchased a precious pearl from a Javanese merchant.
The Potomac Highlands of West Virginia (/ p ə ˈ t oʊ m ə k / ⓘ), or simply the Potomac Highlands, centers on five West Virginian counties (Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Mineral, and Pendleton) in the upper Potomac River watershed in the western portion of the state's eastern panhandle, bordering Maryland and Virginia.
The term Southeast Asian Massif [1] was proposed in 1997 by anthropologist Jean Michaud [2] to discuss the human societies inhabiting the lands above an elevation of approximately 300 metres (1,000 ft) in the southeastern portion of the Asian landmass, thus not merely in the uplands of conventional Mainland Southeast Asia.
WV postcode area, England; WV, a prefix for tombs found in the West Valley of the Valley of the Kings; WandaVision, a 2021 Disney+ miniseries; Lockheed EC-121 Warning Star, designated WV-1, WV-2, WV-3 in US Navy service; Swe Fly (IATA airline designator WV) Weerodara Vibhushanaya, a military decoration in Sri Lanka