Virginia is a city in St. Louis County, Minnesota, United States, on the Mesabi Iron Range. With an economy heavily reliant upon large-scale iron ore mining, Virginia is considered the Mesabi Range’s trailer center. The population was 8,423 at the 2020 census. Virginia is just south of the Superior National Forest and not quite 100 miles (160 km) south of the Canada–United States attach at International Falls, Minnesota, and 55 miles (89 km) northwest of Duluth, Minnesota. Virginia is a share of the Duluth metropolitan area and U.S. Highway 53 runs through town.

Virginia was laid out in 1892, and named after Virginia, the original state of a large allocation of the lumbermen in the area at the time. A make known office has been in operation at Virginia past 1893. Virginia was incorporated in February 1895. It was a logging community first, then developed as an iron mining community. The Virginia Place mines were prosperous and setting additional records consistently by the late 1890s. The main population boom began after mining camps were built for entrepreneurs and financiers including Andrew Carnegie, Leonidas Merritt, Jay Cooke, John D. Rockefeller, William J. Olcott, and James J. Hill. With the use of diamond drills, mules, and a omnipresent labor force, the mines moved millions of tons per year and shipped them out of the Twin Ports of Duluth and Superior, as capably as Two Harbors.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an Place of 19.18 square miles (49.68 km); 18.85 square miles (48.82 km²) is estate and 0.33 square miles (0.85 km) is water. Lakes in Virginia adjoin Silver Lake and Bailey Lake. The area was originally named Qeechaquepagem by an Ojibwe tribe, which roughly speaking means “lake of the north birds.”

Virginia is allocation of the Quad Cities, which include friendly Eveleth, Gilbert, and Mountain Iron.