Name of Region
FIVE GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS OF VIRGINIA
Special
Landforms
Location
Products Industries
Notes/Meaning
Also called the
Tidewater
COASTAL PLAIN
Flat Land
Near Atlantic
Ocean and
Chesapeake
Bay
(includes the
Eastern
Shore)
Tourist
Attractions/Cities
Lake Drummond
The Great Dismal
Swamp
Virginia Beach
Yorktown/Jamestown
East of the
Fall Line
PIEDMONT
“Land at the
foot of the
mountains”
Rolling hills
West of the
Fall Line
Williamsburg/Norfolk
Monticello
Mount Vernon
Richmond
Alexandria
BLUE RIDGE
MOUNTAIN
“Source of
many rivers”
Located
Old, rounded between the
mountains
Piedmont
and Valley
and Ridge
regions
Part of the
Appalachian
Mountain
system
Mount Rogers
Harpers Ferry
Shenandoah
National Park
Skyline Drive
Name of Region
VALLEY AND
RIDGE
Special
Notes/Meaning
Landforms
Includes the
Great Valley of
Virginia and
other valleys
separated by
ridges
Valleys
Located west
separated by of the Blue
ridges
Ridge
Mountains
Location
Part of the
Appalachian
Mountain
system
Products
Industries
Tourist
Attractions/Cities
Natural Chimneys
Shenandoah
Valley
Luray Caverns
Natural Bridge
Cumberland Gap
APPALACHIAN
PLATEAU
Only a small
part of the
plateau is
located in
Virginia
Plateau –
Area of
elevated land
that is flat on
top
Located in
Southwest
Virginia
Norton