Virginia1
Pronunciation: /vəˈdʒɪnɪə/
- a state of the eastern US, on the Atlantic coast; population 7,769,089 (est. 2008); capital, Richmond. It was the site of the first permanent European settlement in North America in 1607, and was named in honour of Elizabeth I, the ‘Virgin Queen’. It was one of the original thirteen states of the Union (1788).
