Tidewater Virginia

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Tidewater Virginia is commonly used as a term to refer to all portions in Virginia east of the fall line which are located adjacent to tidal waters (generally rivers and the Chesapeake Bay) except (perhaps ironically) the Eastern Shore (which is actually entirely tidal by that definition). In the past, this term was also used for the more narrowly-defined areas of the state now widely called the Hampton Roads region.