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  1. West Virginia is a landlocked state in the Southern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. 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.

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      Charleston is the capital and most populous city of the U.S....

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    • Thomas Lee

      Colonel Thomas Lee (c. 1690 – November 14, 1750) was a...

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      Parkersburg is a city in and the county seat of Wood County,...

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      The West Virginia Senate is the upper house of the West...

  2. 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).

  3. The U.S. state of West Virginia has 55 counties. Fifty of them existed at the time of the Wheeling Convention in 1861, during the American Civil War, when those counties seceded from the Commonwealth of Virginia to form the new state of West Virginia. [1]

  4. West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian region of the United States. Its capital and largest city is Charleston. It is often abbreviated W. Va. or simply WV. About 1,800,000 people live in the state.

  5. West Virginia is a state in the southeastern region of the United States of America. It's often called the "Mountain State", being the only state in the USA to lie completely within a mountain range (the Appalachians ), and having the highest mean elevation of any state in the east.

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    Jun 20, 2020 · West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian region of the United States. Its capital and largest city is Charleston. It is often abbreviated W. Va. or simply WV. About 1,800,000 people live in the state.

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  8. The Governor of West Virginia is the head of the executive branch of West Virginia's state government and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces. The current governor is Republican Jim Justice, who assumed office on January 16, 2017.

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