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Isle of Wight County, Virginia

Isle of Wight County, Virginia

Isle of Wight County is a county in the Hampton Roads region of the U.S. state of Virginia. It is named after the Isle of Wight, England, south of the Solent, from where many of its early colonists had come. As of the 2020 census, the population was 38,606. Its county seat is Isle of Wight, an unincorporated community. Isle of Wight County is in the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NCMetropolitan Statistical Area. Its northeastern boundary is on the coast of Hampton Roads waterway.