American state - one of the 50 states of the United States

U.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA, America, U.S. - North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776

Beckley - a city in southern West Virginia

capital of West Virginia, Charleston - state capital of West Virginia in the central part of the state on the Kanawha river

Clarksburg - a city in northern West Virginia

Fayetteville - a town in central West Virginia on the New River

Huntington - a city of western West Virginia on the Ohio river at the mouth of the Kanawha

Morgantown - a city in northern West Virginia on the Monongahela river near the Pennsylvania border; site of the University of West Virginia

Parkersburg - a city in northwestern West Virginia on the Ohio river

Wheeling - a city in the northern panhandle of West Virginia on the Ohio river

Kanawha, Kanawha River - a tributary of the Ohio River in West Virginia

Monongahela, Monongahela River - a river that rises in northern West Virginia and flows north into Pennsylvania where it joins the Allegheny River at Pittsburgh to form the Ohio River

Potomac, Potomac River - a river in the east central United States; rises in West Virginia in the Appalachian Mountains and flows eastward, forming the boundary between Maryland and Virginia, to the Chesapeake Bay