High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Virginia Peninsula is a peninsula in southeast Virginia, bounded by the York River, James River, Hampton Roads and Chesapeake Bay. Hampton Roads is the common name for the metropolitan area that surrounds the body of water of the same name. The land portion of Hampton Roads has been historically divided into two regions, the Virginia Peninsula or Peninsula on the north side, and South Hampton Roads on the south side. Geographically located at the northwestern reaches, Charles City and New Kent counties are by some criteria part of the Virginia Peninsula. However, in modern times, they are usually considered part of the Richmond-Petersburg region.