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Virginia Virginia has a total area of 42,774.2 square miles (110,784.7 km2), including 3,180.13 square miles (8,236.5 km2) of water, making it the 35th-largest state by area.[13] Virginia is bordered by Maryland and Washington, D.C. to the north and east; by the Atlantic Ocean to the east; by North Carolina to the south; by Tennessee to the southwest; by Kentucky to the west; and by West Virginia to the north and west. Virginia's boundary with Maryland and Washington, D.C. extends to the low-water mark of the south shore of the Potomac River.[14] The southern border is defined as the 36° 30′ parallel north, though surveyor error led to deviations of as much as three arcminutes.[15] The border with Tennessee was not settled until 1893, when their dispute was brought to the U.S. Supreme Court.[16]
Virginia Virginia has one of the highest concentrations of veterans of any state,[176] and is second to California in total Department of Defense employees.[174][177] The Hampton Roads area has the largest concentration of military personnel and assets of any metropolitan area in the world,[178] including the largest naval base in the world, Naval Station Norfolk.[112] In its state government, Virginia employs 106,143Â public employees, who combined have a median income of $44,656 as of 2013[update].[179]