Hampton Wedding

Hampton is an independent city in Virginia. It is on the southern end of the Virginia Peninsula, bordering on Hampton Roads and Chesapeake Bay. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 146,437; but the U.S. Census' 2004 estimate shows that the city's population is 159,983.

The current independent city of Hampton became much larger after a municipal consolidation with the incorporated town of Phoebus and Elizabeth City County, Virginia in 1952. It essentially incorporates the boundaries of Elizabeth City County which was created in 1643 from Elizabeth River Shire, one of the eight original shires of 1634 in Colonial Virginia.

The former town of Kecoughtan settled in 1610 in the Virginia Colony forms the basis for Hampton's claim to the oldest continuously occupied English settlement in North America.

Hampton is located at 3725N, 762136W (37.034946, -76.360126)GR1.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 352.8 km (136.2 mi). 134.1 km (51.8 mi) of it is land and 218.7 km (84.4 mi) of it (61.99%) is water.