North Carolina Profile

Charlotte North Carolina is one of the most progressive cities in the South.

Lying on the Atlantic Ocean, it is bordered by Virginia, South Carolina, and Tennessee. It covers 52,671 sq mi (136,417 sq km); its capital is Raleigh. Ranges of the Appalachian Mountains, including the Great Smoky Mountains, are in the west; the Blue Ridge Mountains are in the east. Several Indian peoples inhabited the area before Europeans arrived. The coast was explored by Giovanni da Verrazzano in 1524, and the first English settlement in the New World was established at Roanoke Island in 1585. It formed part of the Carolina grant of 1663. A provincial congress in 1776 gave the first explicit sanction of independence by an American colony, and North Carolina was invaded by British troops in 1780. An original state of the Union, it was the 12th to ratify the Constitution. Its 18th-century agricultural economy based on slave labour continued into the 19th century. It seceded from the Union in 1861; following the American Civil War, it annulled the secession order and abolished slavery, and it was readmitted to the Union in 1868. In the 1940s its economy improved as some of the nation's largest military installations, including Fort Bragg, were located there. It has a large rural population but is also the leading industrial state of its region, and it has an expanding high technology industry in the Raleigh-Durham area. Products include tobacco, corn, and furniture.

Encyclopedia Britannica: North Carolina (state, United States)

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North Carolina Statistics

Population, 2007 estimate	9,061,032
Population, percent change, April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2007	12.6%
Housing units, 2007	4,125,308
Median household income, 2007	$44,772
Land area, 2000 (square miles)	48,710.88
Persons per square mile, 2000	165.2

U.S. Census Bureau: North Carolina QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau

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North Carolina Links

There's more information than I could possibly list here but I want to provide links to further your investigation if you so choose. So, here's a link the Official State Home Page of North Carolina. The official tourism Web site of North Carolina has some amazing photographs!

Weather information is also available by cities. Just visit North Carolina Weather - Average Temperatures and Rainfall and then click on the name of the city you are interested in to find data for that specific city. And what state profile would be complete without a link to their Top Attractions and Oddities?!?

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