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A view of Harris Lake from the Harris Lake County Park in Wake County, North Carolina, with the Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant in view (2021)

North Carolina (/ˌkærəˈlaɪnə/ ^ⓘ KARR-ə-LY-nə) is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, South Carolina to the south, Georgia to the southwest, and Tennessee to the west. The state is the 28th-largest and 9th-most populous of the United States. Along with South Carolina, it makes up the Carolinas region of the East Coast. At the 2020 census, the state had a population of 10,439,388. Raleigh is the state's capital and Charlotte is its most populous city. The Charlotte metropolitan area, with an estimated population of 2,805,115 in 2023, is the most populous metropolitan area in North Carolina, the 22nd-most populous in the United States, and the largest banking center in the nation after New York City. The Research Triangle, with an estimated population of 2,368,947 in 2023, is the second-most populous combined metropolitan area in the state, 31st-most populous in the United States, and is home to the largest research park in the United States, Research Triangle Park.

The earliest evidence of human occupation in North Carolina dates back 10,000 years, found at the Hardaway Site. North Carolina was inhabited by Carolina Algonquian, Iroquoian, and Siouan speaking tribes of Native Americans prior to the arrival of Europeans. King Charles II granted eight lord proprietors a colony they named Carolina after the king and which was established in 1670 with the first permanent settlement at Charles Town (Charleston). Because of the difficulty of governing the entire colony from Charles Town, the colony was eventually divided and North Carolina was established as a royal colony in 1729 and was one of the Thirteen Colonies. The Halifax Resolves resolution adopted by North Carolina on April 12, 1776, was the first formal call for independence from Great Britain among the American Colonies during the American Revolution.

On November 21, 1789, North Carolina became the 12th state to ratify the United States Constitution. In the run-up to the American Civil War, North Carolina declared its secession from the Union on May 20, 1861, becoming the tenth of eleven states to join the Confederate States of America. Following the Civil War, the state was restored to the Union on July 4, 1868. On December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright successfully piloted the world's first controlled, sustained flight of a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina's Outer Banks. North Carolina often uses the slogan "First in Flight" on state license plates to commemorate this achievement, alongside a newer alternative design bearing the slogan "First in Freedom" in reference to the Mecklenburg Declaration and Halifax Resolves. (Full article...)

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Fugitive Slaves in the Dismal Swamp, Virginia, by David Edward Cronin, 1888.

The Great Dismal Swamp maroons were people who inhabited the swamplands of the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia and North Carolina after escaping enslavement. Although conditions were harsh, research suggests that thousands lived there between about 1700 and the 1860s. Harriet Beecher Stowe told the maroon people's story in her 1856 novel Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. The most significant research on the settlements began in 2002 with a project by Dan Sayers of American University. (Full article...)

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Uptown Charlotte skyline

Charlotte (/ˈʃɑːrlət/ SHAR-lət) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina and the county seat of Mecklenburg County. The population was 874,579 at the 2020 census, making Charlotte the 15th-most populous city in the United States, the seventh-most populous city in the South, and the second-most populous city in the Southeast behind Jacksonville, Florida. The city is the cultural, economic, and transportation center of the Charlotte metropolitan area, whose estimated 2023 population of 2,805,115 ranked 22nd in the United States. The Charlotte metropolitan area is part of an eighteen-county market region or combined statistical area with an estimated 2023 population of 3,387,115.

Between 2004 and 2014, Charlotte was among the country's fastest-growing metropolitan areas, with 888,000 new residents. Based on U.S. census data from 2005 to 2015, Charlotte tops the U.S. in millennial population growth. It is the third-fastest-growing major city in the United States. Residents of Charlotte are referred to as "Charlotteans". (Full article...)

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Image 1Sir Walter Raleigh, sponsor of the Roanoke Colony, and namesake of the capital city of North Carolina, Raleigh (from History of North Carolina)
Image 2A map showing the proposed route of the de Soto Expedition, based on the 1997 Charles Hudson map (from History of North Carolina)
Image 31st Maryland Regiment holding the line at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, 1781 (from History of North Carolina)
Image 4Map of Research Triangle, with points representing NC State University, Duke University, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (from History of North Carolina)
Image 5William Woods Holden, a Unionist who served as the 38th and 40th Governor of North Carolina, and during the Reconstruction era (from History of North Carolina)
Image 6Halifax Resolves plaque (from History of North Carolina)
Image 7Map of North America by Vesconte Maggiolo after an earlier map made on the Verrazzano expedition of 1524. The narrow isthmus of land separating "Tera Florida" from "Francesca" is the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Cape Fear is labeled "C. de la Forest". (from History of North Carolina)
Image 8Map of the coast of Virginia and North Carolina, drawn 1585–86 by Theodor de Bry, based on map by John White of the Roanoke Colony (from History of North Carolina)
Image 9Country store in Gordonton, North Carolina, 1939 (from History of North Carolina)
Image 10Ceremony of Secotan warriors in North Carolina. Watercolour by English colonist John White, 1585 (from History of North Carolina)
Image 11First successful flight of the Wright Flyer, near Kitty Hawk, 1903 (from History of North Carolina)
Image 12Bennett Place, historic site of major Confederate surrender in Durham (from History of North Carolina)
Image 13Union captures Fort Fisher, 1865 (from History of North Carolina)
Image 14North Carolina is named after King Charles I of England. Carolina is taken from the Latin word for "Charles", Carolus. (from History of North Carolina)
Image 15Map of the roads and railroads of North Carolina, 1854 (from History of North Carolina)
Image 16Commercial Airports in North Carolina (from Transportation in North Carolina)
Image 17Signers Monument, Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, in Greensboro (from History of North Carolina)
Image 18Artists conception of Town Creek Indian Mound during the late Town Creek-early Leak phases circa 1350 CE (from History of North Carolina)
Image 19Reconstructed royal governor's mansion, Tryon Palace, in New Bern (from History of North Carolina)

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... that The Washington Post described a North Carolina dive bar as "a middle finger to the development surrounding it"?
... that in 1749, James Davis became the first printer to set up shop in the colony of North Carolina?
... that the North Carolina state auditor is fifth in the line of succession to the governorship of North Carolina?
... that the Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina, uniquely within the Council of State, has powers in both the executive and legislative branches of government?
... that the suspect in a deadly shooting at the University of North Carolina was a graduate student of the victim?
... that the slopes near Bass Lake at Flat Top Manor in North Carolina were covered with hundreds of apple trees?

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