Chesapeake is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 249,422, it is the second-most populous independent city in Virginia, tenth-largest in the Mid-Atlantic, and the 90th most populous city in the United States.

Chesapeake is included in the Virginia Beach–Norfolk–Newport News metropolitan area. One of the cities in the South Hampton Roads, Chesapeake was organized in 1963 by voter referendums complimentary the political consolidation of the city of South Norfolk as soon as the remnants of the former Norfolk County, which archaic to 1691. (Much of the territory of the county had been annexed by supplementary cities.) Chesapeake is the second-largest city by land Place in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the 17th-largest in the United States.

Chesapeake is a diverse city in which a few urban areas are located; it furthermore has many square miles of protected farmland, forests, and wetlands, including a substantial allocation of the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge. Extending from the rural be adjacent to with North Carolina to the harbor Place of Hampton Roads neighboring the cities of Norfolk, Portsmouth, Suffolk, and Virginia Beach, Chesapeake is located upon the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. It has miles of wharf industrial, commercial and residential property.

In 2011, Chesapeake was named the 21st best city in the United States by Bloomberg Businessweek. Chesapeake is home to the international Headquarters for Dollar Tree.