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Panorama northwest, northeast and east from a ridge along West Virginia Route 42 between Elk Garden and Sulphur City in Mineral County, West Virginia (2016)

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. West Virginia is the 10th-smallest state by area and ranks as the 12th-least populous state, with a population of 1,793,716 residents. The capital and most populous city is Charleston with a population of 49,055.

West Virginia was admitted to the Union on June 20, 1863, and was a key border state during the American Civil War. It was the only state to form by separating from a Confederate state, one of two states (along with Nevada) admitted to the Union during the Civil War, and the second state to separate from another state, after Maine separated from Massachusetts in 1820. Some of its residents held slaves, but most were yeoman farmers, and the delegates provided for the gradual abolition of slavery in the new state constitution. The state legislature abolished slavery in the state, and at the same time ratified the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery nationally on February 3, 1865.

West Virginia's northern panhandle extends adjacent to Pennsylvania and Ohio to form a tristate area, with Wheeling, Weirton, and Morgantown just across the border from the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. Huntington in the southwest is close to Ohio and Kentucky, while Martinsburg and Harpers Ferry in the eastern panhandle region are considered part of the Washington metropolitan area, between Maryland and Virginia. West Virginia is often included in several U.S. geographical regions, including the Mid-Atlantic, the Upland South, and the Southeastern United States. It is the only state entirely within the area served by the Appalachian Regional Commission; the area is commonly defined as "Appalachia". (Full article...)

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Interstate 81 (I-81) in the US state of West Virginia crosses the Eastern Panhandle region, linking Virginia to Maryland. The Interstate Highway, completed in 1966, spans 26 miles (42 km) through Berkeley County, paralleling U.S. Route 11 (US 11) for its entire length. I-81 enters the state near Ridgeway, travels northeast, bypassing the city of Martinsburg, and leaves the state at the Potomac River, which serves as the state line. The first solicitations for the construction of I-81 were published in 1959, with the first six miles (9.7 km) of freeway being opened in 1963, and the full length was completed by 1966. On average, between 45,000 and 60,000 vehicles use the freeway through the panhandle per day. (Full article...)

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John Forbes Nash, Jr. (June 13, 1928 – May 23, 2015), known and published as John Nash, was an American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to game theory, real algebraic geometry, differential geometry, and partial differential equations. Nash and fellow game theorists John Harsanyi and Reinhard Selten were awarded the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. In 2015, he and Louis Nirenberg were awarded the Abel Prize for their contributions to the field of partial differential equations.

As a graduate student in the Princeton University Department of Mathematics, Nash introduced a number of concepts (including Nash equilibrium and the Nash bargaining solution) which are now considered central to game theory and its applications in various sciences. In the 1950s, Nash discovered and proved the Nash embedding theorems by solving a system of nonlinear partial differential equations arising in Riemannian geometry. This work, also introducing a preliminary form of the Nash–Moser theorem, was later recognized by the American Mathematical Society with the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research. Ennio De Giorgi and Nash found, with separate methods, a body of results paving the way for a systematic understanding of elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations. Their De Giorgi–Nash theorem on the smoothness of solutions of such equations resolved Hilbert's nineteenth problem on regularity in the calculus of variations, which had been a well-known open problem for almost sixty years. (Full article...)

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Image 1Thomas Lee, the first manager of the Ohio Company of Virginia (from West Virginia)
Image 2State of Westylvania proposed to the U.S. Congress (from West Virginia)
Image 3Saturday afternoon street scene, Welch, McDowell County, 1946 (from West Virginia)
Image 4Map of West Virginia counties (from West Virginia)
Image 5From left, Senator Joe Manchin, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Senator Shelley Moore Capito, and Representative David McKinley (2017) (from West Virginia)
Image 6The summit of Spruce Knob is often covered in clouds. (from West Virginia)
Image 7Counties (in blue) approving Virginia's secession from the U.S. (from History of West Virginia)
Image 8Seneca Rocks, Pendleton County (from West Virginia)
Image 9Packed circles diagram showing estimates of the ethnic origins of people in West Virginia in 2021. (from West Virginia)
Image 10Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight, a statue on the grounds of the West Virginia State Capitol (from West Virginia)
Image 11West Virginia population density map (from West Virginia)
Image 12The Veterans Memorial Bridge carries US 22 from Weirton WV into Ohio. (from West Virginia)
Image 13West Virginia Independence Hall, site of the Wheeling Convention (from History of West Virginia)

Racial plurality in West Virginia by county, per the 2020 U.S. census

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Non-Hispanic White

70–80%

80–90%

90%+

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Image 151715 Nicolas de Fer map showing the Native American areas known as Tionontatacaga and Calicuas (from History of West Virginia)
Image 16Bituminous coal seam in southwestern West Virginia (from West Virginia)
Image 17Harpers Ferry alternated between Confederate and Union rule eight times during the American Civil War, and was finally annexed by West Virginia. (from West Virginia)
Image 18Escaped slave broadside, Hampshire County, West Virginia, 1845 (from West Virginia)
Image 19Turnout by county in the October 24, 1861, West Virginia statehood vote (from History of West Virginia)
Image 20Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, changed hands a dozen times during the American Civil War. (from History of West Virginia)
Image 21Child labor in the coal mines of West Virginia, 1908 (from West Virginia)
Image 22The iconic New River Gorge Bridge near Fayetteville (from West Virginia)
Image 23Bluefield, a major center for coal mining, in 2014 (from West Virginia)
Image 24A view of the New River in West Virginia, the world's third-oldest river geologically (from History of West Virginia)
Image 25Votes by county in the October 1861 statehood vote (from West Virginia)
Image 261751 Fry-Jefferson map showing early ferries and established colonial borders before the French And Indian War (from History of West Virginia)
Image 27Francis H. Pierpont, a leader during the Second Wheeling Convention (from West Virginia)
Image 28Thomas Lee, the first manager of the Ohio Company of Virginia (from History of West Virginia)
Image 29A toll plaza on the West Virginia Turnpike (from West Virginia)
Image 30Map of Virginia dated June 13, 1861, featuring the percentage of slave population within each county at the 1860 census and the proposed state of Kanawha (from West Virginia)
Image 31Köppen climate types of West Virginia, using 1991-2020 climate normals (from West Virginia)
Image 32Slave woman tending to a white baby in West Virginia, 1865 (from West Virginia)
Image 33John S. Carlile, a leader during the First Wheeling Convention (from History of West Virginia)
Image 34Shaded relief map of the Cumberland Plateau and Ridge-and-valley Appalachians (from West Virginia)
Image 35Historical coat of arms of West Virginia (illustrated, 1876) (from West Virginia)
Image 36The Linsly Institute building in Wheeling, West Virginia, which served as the state's first capitol building from statehood in 1863 until March 28, 1870, when the capitol was transferred to Charleston, West Virginia (from History of West Virginia)

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... that the China Folk House Retreat dismantled a Chinese folk house and rebuilt it in West Virginia?
... that West Virginia lawyer Arthur G. Froe served as D.C. Recorder of Deeds under three presidents and was appointed by President Wilson as a draft board legal advisor during World War I?
... that after Lew Dickey Sr. broke into the radio business by buying a station in West Virginia, his son would go on to own Cumulus Media?
... that the first exhibit of the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame came from founder Michael Lipton's record collection?
... that American lawyer and politician Armistead Abraham Lilly was also a principal owner of Ruffner Hotel in Charleston, West Virginia, and resided in its penthouse?
... that West Virginia nursing professor Christine Elizabeth Abrahamsen wrote science-fiction and Gothic novels under the pseudonyms Christabel and Kathleen Westcott?

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