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Primary subregions of Eastern North Carolina include the Sandhills, the Lower Cape Fear (Wilmington Area), the Crystal Coast, the Inner Banks and the Outer Banks. It is composed of the 41 most eastern counties in the state. Cities include Greenville, Jacksonville, Wilmington, Rocky Mount and North Carolina's first capital New Bern.
The Coastal Plain is the largest geographic area of the state, and covers roughly 45% of North Carolina. The Coastal Plain begins along the fall line , a line that marks the boundary between metamorphic/igneous rocks of the Piedmont province (to the west) and sedimentary rocks of the Coastal Plain province (to the east).
This is an area of low, flat, boggy coastal plains. The underlying soil of this damp Arctic coast is thick, solid permafrost, covered in summer with thermokarst "thaw lakes" of melted ice. Ice features such as ice wedges and pingo mounds of soil and ice can be found. This coast has an arctic climate warm enough to allow plant growth in late ...
The Inner Banks is a neologism made up by developers and tourism promoters to describe the inland coastal region of eastern North Carolina. Without historical precedent, the term "Inner Banks" is an early 21st-century construct that is part of an attempt to rebrand the mostly agrarian Coastal Plains east of I-95 as a more attractive region for ...
Arctic Coastal Plain may refer to: A zone of the physiographic region of Arctic Lands, northern Canada; Arctic coastal tundra, ...
Beaufort (pronounced "Bo-furt") is the third-oldest Anglo-European town in North Carolina, after Bath and New Bern. It is the site of the North Carolina Maritime Museum, the official repository for all the artifacts discovered on the Queen Anne’s Revenge. Displays include seashells from around the world, with 5,000 specimens from more than ...
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Mississippi Alluvial and Southeast USA Coastal Plains 8.5.1: Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain 8.5.2: Mississippi Alluvial Plain: 8.5.3: Southern Coastal Plain 8.5.4: Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens 9: Great Plains: 9.2: Temperate Prairies 9.2.1: Aspen Parkland/Northern Glaciated Plains: 9.2.2: Lake Manitoba and Lake Agassiz Plain 9.2.3: Western Corn ...