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  2. List of counties in North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    Partitioned into Greene County, Lenoir County, and Wayne County. Tryon County. 1768 [14] 1779 [14] Partitioned into Lincoln County and Rutherford County. For several months in 1784, Cumberland County was known as Fayette County and sent representatives to the North Carolina General Assembly of April 1784 under this name.

  3. Geography of North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    The geography of North Carolina falls naturally into three divisions — the Appalachian Mountains in the west (including the Blue Ridge and Great Smoky Mountains), the central Piedmont Plateau, and the eastern Atlantic Coastal Plain. North Carolina covers 53,819 square miles (139,391 km 2) and is 503 miles (810 km) wide by 150 miles (241 km ...

  4. Eastern North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    Eastern North Carolina (sometimes abbreviated as ENC) is the region encompassing the eastern tier of North Carolina, United States. It is known geographically as the state's Coastal Plain region. Primary subregions of Eastern North Carolina include the Sandhills, the Lower Cape Fear (Wilmington Area), the Crystal Coast, the Inner Banks and the ...

  5. Chatham County, North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    Website. www.chathamcountync.gov. Chatham County (locally / ˈtʃætəm / CHAT-əm) [ 1 ] is a county located in the Piedmont area of the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is also the location of the geographic center of North Carolina, northwest of Sanford. [ 2 ] As of the 2020 census, the population was 76,285. [ 3 ]

  6. North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Outline of North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    North Carolina – U.S. state on the Eastern Seaboard, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean in the Southeastern United States. North Carolina was one of the original Thirteen Colonies and signed the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. North Carolina was the 12th of the original 13 states to approve the Constitution of the ...

  8. Category:North Carolina counties - Wikipedia

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    North Carolina has had 100 counties since 1911. See List of counties in North Carolina for dates of formation. Subcategories. This category has the following 113 ...

  9. Mecklenburg County, North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    Mecklenburg County (/ ˈ m ɛ k l ə n ˌ b ɜːr ɡ /) is a county located in the southwestern region of the U.S. state of North Carolina, in the United States.As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,115,482, [1] making it the second-most populous county in North Carolina (after Wake County), and the first county in the Carolinas to surpass one million in population. [2]