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West Virginia


State in the southeastern United States bordered by Pennsylvania and Maryland to the north, Virginia to the east and south, and Kentucky and Ohio to the west. Its capital and largest city is Charleston.	1
‡ Separated from Virginia after Virginia seceded from the Union in 1861; it was granted statehood in 1863, during the Civil War.	2
‡ Ranks first in bituminous coal production, with about twenty percent of the nation’s total.	3

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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