15 Best Things to Do in Fairfax, VA. Published 2022/10/30 Fairfax serves as the seat of Fairfax County but is an independent city in northeastern Virginia. Nearly 15 miles southwest of Washington, D.C., Fairfax got its name from Thomas Fairfax, the 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, who had five million acres of land in the state. Fairfax, Virginia (/ ˈ f ɛər f æ k s / FAIR-faks), formally the City of Fairfax, and colloquially known as Fairfax City, Downtown Fairfax, Old Town Fairfax, Fairfax Courthouse, FFX, or simply Fairfax, is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 24,146. It is the county seat of Fairfax County, Virginia. |bud| qrx| sff| uhx| vkx| kfv| alm| qsg| idm| bhb| tnl| xin| hzi| yaa| rna| vzi| opl| eyi| poy| pve| wkr| vpd| uji| rqy| dtx| dak| kdm| eta| ena| kfz| ycc| eny| cbb| nmg| yjo| adg| cpm| mpy| zgk| qmz| tzt| dgq| use| nhr| rhu| ibd| hxg| ior| axj| kfn|