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At the time of the 2000 federal census whites constituted 72.3 percent of the population, blacks 19.6 percent, Asians 3.7 percent, Native Americans 0.3 percent, Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders 0.1 percent, and those of mixed heritage or not reporting ethnicity 4 percent. Hispanics, who may be of any race, were 4.7 percent of Virginia's people. Virginia's three large metropolitan areas have a great deal of ethnic diversity. The Norfolk area, in particular, has one of the nation's largest Filipino communities, and northern Virginia has the largest Vietnamese community on the East Coast. Northern Virginia is also home to large communities of Hispanics, especially from Central America, and Koreans.

The 1998 census put Virginia's population at 6,791,000. The State Capital is Richmond, other major cities or towns include Blacksburg, Bristol, Chesapeake, Charlottesville, Fairfax, Lynchburg, Roanoke.