Hampton is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 137,148. It is the 7th most populous city in Virginia and 204th most populous city in the nation. Hampton is included in the Hampton Roads Metropolitan Statistical Area (officially known as the Virginia Beach–Norfolk–Newport News, VA–NC MSA) which is the 37th largest in the United States, with a total population of 1,799,674 (2020). This area, known as “America’s First Region”, also includes the independent cities of Chesapeake, Virginia Beach, Newport News, Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Suffolk, as capably as further smaller cities, counties, and towns of Hampton Roads.

Hampton traces its history to the city’s Old Point Comfort, the home of Fort Monroe for re 400 years, which was named by the 1607 voyagers, led by Captain Christopher Newport, who first standard Jamestown as an English colonial settlement. Since consolidation in 1952, Hampton has included the former Elizabeth City County and the incorporated town of Phoebus, consolidated by a mutual agreement.

After the terminate of the American Civil War, historic Hampton University was received opposite from the town upon the Hampton River, providing an education for many newly-freed former slaves and for Place Native Americans. In the 20th century, the Place became the location of Langley Air Force Base, NASA Langley Research Center, and the Virginia Air and Space Center. Hampton features many miles of haven and beaches.

The city features a broad array of event and industrial enterprises, retail and residential areas, historical sites, and new points of interest, such a NASCAR immediate track, the oldest Anglican parish in the Americas (1610), and a moated, six-sided, historical bastion fort.