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  2. West Virginia - Wikipedia

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    West Virginia is a landlocked state in the Southern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. [note 2] It is bordered by Pennsylvania to the north and east, Maryland to the east and northeast, Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, and Ohio to the northwest. West Virginia is the 10th-smallest state by area and ranks as the ...

  3. History of West Virginia - Wikipedia

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    The history of West Virginia stems from the 1861 Wheeling Convention, which was an assembly of northwestern Virginian Southern Unionists, who aimed to repeal the Ordinance of Secession that Virginia made during the American Civil War (1861–1865). It became one of two American states that formed during the American Civil War – the other ...

  4. Outline of West Virginia - Wikipedia

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    West Virginia – U.S. state located in the Appalachian region of the Southern United States. West Virginia became a state following the Wheeling Conventions of 1861, in which 50 northwestern counties of Virginia decided to break away from Virginia during the American Civil War. The state is noted for its mountains and rolling hills, its ...

  5. In 2014, hikers in New Jersey began sharing photos and videos of another bi-pedal bear who came to be known as “Pedals.” Unlike his brethren in West Virginia, Pedals was unable to walk on all ...

  6. West Virginia University - Wikipedia

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    West Virginia University (WVU) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Morgantown, West Virginia, United States.Its other campuses are those of the West Virginia University Institute of Technology in Beckley, Potomac State College of West Virginia University in Keyser, and clinical campuses for the university's medical school at Charleston Area Medical Center in ...

  7. Charleston, West Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Charleston, West Virginia. Charleston is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of West Virginia and the seat of Kanawha County. [7] Located at the confluence of the Elk and Kanawha rivers, the city had a population of 48,864 at the 2020 census and an estimated population of 48,018 in 2021. [4][5] The Charleston metropolitan area ...

  8. Politics of West Virginia - Wikipedia

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    West Virginia is now a heavily Republican state, with John McCain winning the state in 2008, [1] Mitt Romney in 2012 [2] and Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020. Before 2000, West Virginia had voted almost exclusively Democratic in each presidential election starting in 1932, only voting Republican amidst national landslides in 1956, 1972, and 1984.

  9. Huntington, West Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Huntington is the second-most populous city in West Virginia, with a population of 46,842 as of the 2020 census. Its metro area, the Huntington–Ashland metropolitan area, is the largest in West Virginia, spanning seven counties across three states (KY, OH, and WV) and having a population of 376,155 at the 2020 census. [6]

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