page_title: South Hampton Roads
section_title: U.S. military installations
hierarchical_section_title: South Hampton Roads / U.S. military installations
caption_attribution_description: The U.S. Navy aircraft carriers USS America (CV-66), USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67), USS Nimitz (CVN-68), and USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) moored at piers 11 and 12 at Norfolk Naval Station, Virginia (USA), in 1985.
context_page_description: South Hampton Roads is a region of the U.S. state of Virginia. It in the most southeastern part of the state. The area is part of the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC MSA. About 1.7 million people live there.
  Hampton Roads is the common name for the metropolitan area around the body of water of the same name. The land area of Hampton Roads is divided into two regions. These are South Hampton Roads on the south side and the Virginia Peninsula on the north side. People who live there commonly call South Hampton Roads "the Southside".
  As of the 2010 Census, the Hampton Roads MSA is the fifth largest metropolitan area by size in the southeastern United States. It is the second-largest between Washington, D.C. and Atlanta, Georgia.
  The decision to call the region "Hampton Roads" was a political one. The area was called "Tidewater" for many years by the people who lived there. The local baseball team was called the Tidewater Tides for years. It is now called the Norfolk Tides. When they first came to Tidewater, they used the popular name to draw more fans.
context_section_description: South Hampton Roads is home to many United States military bases.
caption: Aircraft carriers at the pier at Naval Station Norfolk
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