Suffolk is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and as such has no county. As of the 2020 census, the population was 94,324. It is the 10th most populous city in Virginia and the largest city in Virginia by boundary land Place as skillfully as the 14th largest in the country.

Suffolk is located in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area. This after that includes the independent cities of Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Virginia Beach, and smaller cities, counties, and towns of Hampton Roads. With miles of marina property on the Nansemond and James rivers, present-day Suffolk was formed in 1974 after consolidating in imitation of Nansemond County and the towns of Holland and Whaleyville. The current mayor (as of 2021) is Mike Duman.

Prior to colonization, the region was inhabited by the original Nansemond people. The agreement of Suffolk was traditional in 1742 by Virginian colonists as a harbor town on the Nansemond River. It was originally named Constant’s Warehouse (for John Constant, one of the first founders of the settlement) before beast renamed after Royal Governor of Virginia Sir William Gooch’s home county of the similar name in England. During the colonial era, Virginian colonists in the region cultivated tobacco in imitation of enslaved labor as a cash crop, before transitioning to tainted farming. Suffolk was designated as the county seat of Nansemond County in 1750.

Early in its history, Suffolk became a home transportation gateway to the areas east of it in South Hampton Roads. Before the American Civil War, both the Portsmouth and Roanoke Railroad and the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad were built through Suffolk, early predecessors of 21st-century Class 1 railroads operated by CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern, respectively. Other railroads and far ahead major highways followed after the war.