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Charleston is the capital of West Virginia and at the same time the biggest city of the state. It has got many Nicknames like "Charly West", "Chemical Valley", "The most northern city of the south and the most southern city of the north",... Charleston is West Virginia's capital since 1885 and it is where the river Elk crosses the river Kanawha.

The sister city of it is Banska Bystrica in Slovakia. Banska Bystria's landscape looks a bit like the one in Charleston, because in both cities are many mountains. The first formal exchange between these two cities was a visit by a delegation from Banska Bystrica to Charleston. This was in October 2009.

In Charleston, there are only a few considerable attractions, but you can see many buildings from the Victorian era. You also can visit the State Capitol Building Dome, which is one of the biggest ones in the whole United States.

And you can go shopping in the Town Center which is really big and has got everything you could want to buy, or you could listen to the nice music of the Symphony Orchestra. There are also big places where you can go golfing, and the Appalachian Wildwaters.