A port city in southeastern Virginia, USA. Population 179,000 (1994). Located at the mouth of the James River at the entrance to Chesapeake Bay, it is an important port for North Atlantic shipping and domestic waterway traffic. It is an export port for tobacco, automobiles, lumber, pulp, grain, coal, etc. Industries include shipbuilding, metals, building materials, and seafood processing. Settlement began in 1620, and the town developed after it was connected to Richmond by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad in 1880. [Kanno Mineaki] Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information |
アメリカ合衆国バージニア州南東部の港湾都市。人口17万9000(1994)。チェサピーク湾入口のジェームズ川の河口に位置し,北大西洋航路や国内水運の重要な港である。タバコ,自動車,木材,パルプ,穀物,石炭などの輸出港。造船,金属,建築資材,水産加工などの工業がある。1620年に定住が始まり,1880年チェサピーク・オハイオ鉄道によってリッチモンドと結ばれてから町が発展した。【菅野 峰明】
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