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Eastern North Carolina is roughly made up of the 41 easternmost counties in North Carolina. Generally, the region denotes all of the state's counties on and east of Interstate 95 (also known as East Coast USA Main Street stretching from northern Maine to the southern tip of Florida).
According to the 2020 United States census, North Carolina is the 9th-most populous state with 10,439,388 inhabitants, but the 28th-largest by land area spanning 53,819 square miles (139,390 km 2) of land. [1] [2] North Carolina is divided into 100 counties and contains 551 municipalities consisting of cities, towns, or villages. [3]
The rivers of central North Carolina rise on the eastern slopes of the Blue Ridge. The two largest of these are the Catawba River and the Yadkin River, and they drain much of the Piedmont region of the state. The major rivers of Eastern North Carolina, from north to south, are: the Chowan, the Roanoke, the Tar, the Neuse and the Cape Fear.
Map of Crystal Coast. The Crystal Coast extends southwestward from Cape Lookout to the New River Inlet. In North Carolina, the Crystal Coast is an 85-mile stretch of coastline that extends from the Cape Lookout National Seashore, which includes 56 miles of protected beaches, southwestward to the New River.
* New York has both ocean and Great Lakes coastline. This is a list of U.S. states and territories ranked by their coastline length. 30 states have a coastline: 23 with a coastline on the Arctic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean (including the Gulf of Mexico and Gulf of Maine), and/or Pacific Ocean, and 8 with a Great Lakes shoreline.
The Outer Banks (frequently abbreviated OBX) are a 200 mi (320 km) string of barrier islands and spits off the coast of North Carolina and southeastern Virginia, on the east coast of the United States. They line most of the North Carolina coastline, separating Currituck Sound, Albemarle Sound, and Pamlico Sound from the Atlantic Ocean.
The EAST TEXAS SUNDAY DRIVE Book, by Bob Bowman ISBN 1-878096-00-1. Wild Flowers of the Big Thicket, East Texas, and Western Louisiana, by Geyata Ajilvsgi ISBN 0-89096-065-8. Two centuries in East Texas: A history of San Augustine County and surrounding territory from 1685 by George Louis Crocket (Author) OCLC 15211641
We’ve divided the state’s roughly 300 miles of coastline into three regions — northern (Outer Banks), central and southern — to help you find the best of North Carolina’s beaches. North ...