GTA 6 City of the Week is a weekly article series here on GTA BOOM. Every week, we will evaluate a different city in the United States, gauging how well it would fit GTA 6 as a setting.

Sticking to the east coast after last week's Charleston, we're moving a bit further up north for a deviant entry in our City of the Week series. Instead of looking at just one city, we're looking at a whole metropolitan area composed of several smaller settlements, which together form a pretty large urban area.

Hampton Roads

As mentioned above, Hampton Roads is not a city itself, rather the name of both a geographic formation and a metropolitan region. The large bay is the confluence of the James, Elizabeth and Nansemond rivers. The bay is actually an inlet of the much larger Chesapeake bay, and is situated more or less at its mouth. Hampton Roads is a metropolitan area composed of 9 cities and a number of smaller communities, collectively being the home of over 1.7 million souls.

The nine cities — Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Hampton, Newport News, Chesapeake, Suffolk, Portsmouth, Poquoson and Williamsburg — are scattered throughout the southeasternmost corner of Virginia. Of these, Virginia Beach is the largest, anchoring the Hampton Roads area. That said, all of the settlements considered part of the area are more or less physically linked, so technically we're looking at a single city sliced up into various administrative zones.

The area is best known for its largest city, Virginia Beach, which is both a hot tourist attraction and a historically significant site. Cape Henry, located at the northernmost tip of the settlement, is where the historic event of "The First Landing" took place in 1607, which was followed by the establishment of the first successful English colony on the continent, thus marking the most absolute point of origin for the entire nation.

But that isn't where the historical significance ends — Yorktown, one of the northernmost settlements of the Hampton Roads urban area was the site of the British Empire's ultimate defeat during the American Revolutionary War. While the war continued following the battle, the massive defeat of the "lobsterbacks" at Yorktown sealed the outcome of the war.

The whole area is a anchor point for historic tourism, as there are countless monuments to both the foundation of the first permanent settlements as well as the victory in the Revolutionary War. Hampton Roads also has a number of notable "firsts" to its name, such as the first free public schools in the nation, as well as the world's first bridge-tunnel hybrid crossing structure.