Richmond
Richmond is the capital city of the U.S.
Richmond is the capital city of the U.S. state of Virginia. Incorporated in 1742, Richmond has been an independent city since 1871. It is the fourth-most populous city in Virginia, with a population of 226,610 at the 2020 census. The Richmond metropolitan area, with over 1.37 million residents, is the third-most populous metropolitan area in Virginia and 44th-largest in the United States. Richmond is located at the James River's fall line.
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Worth seeing in and around Richmond
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Virginia Commonwealth University
Public research university in Richmond, Virginia, United States
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Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Richmond
- Airports
- Richmond (RIC), 11 km · Norfolk (ORF), 131 km · Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA), 150 km
- Stations
- Richmond Main Street Station, 900 m · Broad Street Station, 3.4 km
- Norfolk → Richmond130 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · $12–17
- Washington → Richmond154 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · $14–19
- Dulles → Richmond157 km · quickest by road, 3h · $14–20
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Richmond
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Richmond. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get in620 - Between Bridgeport station (SkyTrain Canada Line) and Tsawwassen ferry terminal in Delta.
- Get inThis ferry terminal connects with Vancouver Island and Southern Gulf Islands During overnight hours, there is one bus route serving Richmond: N10 - Between downtown Vancouver and Brighouse station via Vancouver International Airport
- Go nextThe Tsawassen ferry terminal is 20-30 minutes south-west on Highways 99 and 17 (or take bus #620 from Bridgeport Canada Line station).
From Wikivoyage: Richmond (British Columbia), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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- Oregon Hill Historic Districthistoric district in Richmond, Virginia, United States of America1.4 km