Meanings
proper noun
- A large natural roadstead in southeastern Virginia, United States, at the confluence of the James River and Chesapeake Bay.
- broadlyThe region of southeastern Virginia (and sometimes also northeastern North Carolina) surrounding this roadstead.
Of the ten Hampton Roads census tracts with the most cameras, eight are majority Black. The heaviest concentration in Norfolk sits around Norfolk State University, the only historically Black university in South Hampton Roads.
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