Ellendale, Delaware began as a forest and swamp on the divide between the Chesapeake Bay and Delaware Bay, and this Virginia metropolitan region incorporates the mouths of the Elizabeth, Nansemond and James rivers before they empty into the Chesapeake Bay near the Atlantic. Which region is being described?

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Hampton Roads. Hampton Roads is the metropolitan region on the Virginia Peninsula and South Hampton Roads where several rivers meet the Chesapeake Bay. Its Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Newport News urban core sits on the estuary's mouth to the Atlantic.