The Mountain State
- Population
- About 1.8 million
- Largest city
- Charleston
- Capital
- Charleston
- Statehood
- 1863
- Counties
- 55
- Busiest county
- Kanawha County, about 178,000
- Quietest county
- Wirt County, about 5,100
West Virginia
The only state formed by breaking away from another one, when its counties refused to leave the union with the rest of Virginia. It is the most mountainous state in the east, coal built and nearly broke it, and almost none of it is flat.
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- Counties
- All 55, each named
- Sizes
- 4 sizes, 10" x 8" to 40" x 32"
Every county on this map
All 55 named, Barbour to Wyoming, and the last one shares its name with a state far out west. West Virginia was cut out of Virginia during the Civil War, which is why its boundary is so irregular: it follows where people stood rather than where a surveyor did.
- Barbour County
- Berkeley County
- Boone County
- Braxton County
- Brooke County
- Cabell County
- Calhoun County
- Clay County
- Doddridge County
- Fayette County
- Gilmer County
- Grant County
- Greenbrier County
- Hampshire County
- Hancock County
- Hardy County
- Harrison County
- Jackson County
- Jefferson County
- Kanawha County
- Lewis County
- Lincoln County
- Logan County
- Marion County
- Marshall County
- Mason County
- McDowell County
- Mercer County
- Mineral County
- Mingo County
- Monongalia County
- Monroe County
- Morgan County
- Nicholas County
- Ohio County
- Pendleton County
- Pleasants County
- Pocahontas County
- Preston County
- Putnam County
- Raleigh County
- Randolph County
- Ritchie County
- Roane County
- Summers County
- Taylor County
- Tucker County
- Tyler County
- Upshur County
- Wayne County
- Webster County
- Wetzel County
- Wirt County
- Wood County
- Wyoming County