Regional Guide: Northern Virginia
If you're moving to Virginia from some place else and don't know where to start, let me give the low down on our fair Commonwealth. Virginia is a medium to average sized Commonwealth that is divided into five main regions: Northern, Central, Hampton Roads, Shenandoah Valley, and Southwest/Highlands. Some of these regions overlap each other, and some have smaller enclaves within each region As discussed before , Northern Virginia stretches as far south as the city of Fredericksburg, but to most people it is the immediate Washington D.C. Metro area (a radius of about 25 miles). In this post, I will discuss Northern Virginia, and what that means... Northern Virginia: (D.C. METRO, Arlington, Alexandria, Fairfax County, Reston, Herndon, Prince William, Loudoun (East), and Stafford County towards Fredericksburg) The Potomac River belongs to Maryland......... When people talk about "NOVA" this is it: Washington, D.C. Anything that is within a 15-25 mile radius