Alexandria, Virginia (usa)

Alexandria, Virginia

Alexandria, Virginia ranks 612th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Italy, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Albuquerque, New Mexico. Memorable people born in Alexandria, Virginia include Dermot Mulroney, Stewart Copeland, and Willard Scott. Memorable people who died in Alexandria, Virginia include Wernher von Braun, Alvin Hansen, and John Warner. Alexandria, Virginia has been the birth place of many actors, and musicians and the death place of many politicians, and engineers. Alexandria, Virginia is located in United States.

Alexandria is an independent city in the northern region of the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States. It lies on the western bank of the Potomac River approximately 7 miles (11 km) south of downtown Washington, D.C. Alexandria is the third-largest principal city of the Washington metropolitan area, which is part of the larger Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area. As of 2022, the city's population of 159,467 made it the sixth-most populous city in Virginia and the 173rd-most populous city in the nation. Read more on Wikipedia