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North Carolina is a state in the southeastern region of the United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west, Virginia to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. North Carolina is the 28th most extensive and the 9th most populous of the 50 United States. North Carolina is known as the Tar Heel State and the Old North State.
The state is composed of 100 counties. Its two largest metropolitan areas are among the top ten fastest-growing in the country: its capital, Raleigh, and its largest city, Charlotte. In the past five decades, North Carolina's economy has undergone a transition from reliance upon tobacco, textiles, and furniture-making to a more diversified economy with engineering, energy, biotechnology, and finance sectors.
The state has a wide range of elevations, from sea level on the coast to at Mount Mitchell, the highest point in North America east of the Mississippi River. The climate of the coastal plains is strongly influenced by the Atlantic Ocean. Most of the state falls in the humid subtropical climate zone. More than from the coast to the western, mountainous part of the state has a subtropical highland climate.
North Carolina may refer to:
- North Carolina, a state in the United States
- Province of North Carolina, a British royal colony from 1729 until 1776
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, often referred to (technically inaccurately) as the "University of North Carolina"
- North Carolina Tar Heels, the athletic program of the above school
- University of North Carolina, the public university system of the state of North Carolina, of which the Chapel Hill campus is the oldest
- USS North Carolina, the name of five ships of the United States Navy
- CSS North Carolina, an ironclad gunboat built by the Confederate States Navy in 1863
Usage examples of "north carolina".
One worked out of my office, the other was in North Carolina on temporary assignment.
As soon as I came I repeated what the North Carolina man said on the cars, that North Carolina had 20,000 men ready and they were kept back by Mr.
It was voted on and adopted (New York alone abstaining), whereupon Joseph Hewes of North Carolina, who had repeatedly voted against it, started suddenly upright, and lifting up both his Hands to Heaven as if he had been in a trance, cryd out, It is done!
Roland had given Rhyme the names of some of his relatives to call when he was down in North Carolina for the operation in case he wanted some visitors.
This North Carolina move will only be something everyone else wants if I can get it to go.
I never read a word about Governor Tryon, or North Carolina, or a place called Alamance.