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North Carolina is a state located in the Southern United States. 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.
Carolina Beach. C.B. Carrboro. Paris of the Piedmont [11] Cary. Containment Area for Relocated Yankees; Chadbourn. Strawberry Capital of the World [12] Chapel Hill. The Southern Part of Heaven; Charlotte. Queen City [13] Mint City [14] The Hornet's Nest [15] City of Trees [16] Buzz City; Durham. City of Medicine ; City of The Viper; Bull City ...
Reno, Nevada proudly displays its nickname as "The Biggest Little City in the World" on a large sign above a downtown street.. This partial list of city nicknames in the United States compiles the aliases, sobriquets and slogans that cities are known by (or have been known by historically), officially and unofficially, to municipal governments, local people, outsiders or their tourism boards ...
The main article for this category is List of municipalities in North Carolina; Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cities in North Carolina; See also North Carolina and categories North Carolina counties, Townships in North Carolina, Towns in North Carolina, Villages in North Carolina, Census-designated places in North Carolina, Unincorporated communities in North Carolina
The mountainous western North Carolina city of Asheville is mentioned several times throughout the book. Kya’s dad, Pa, is from Asheville. His family owned a plantation there, but lost it during ...
This is a list of the most common U.S. place names (cities, towns, villages, boroughs and census-designated places [CDP]), with the number of times that name occurs (in parentheses). [1] Some states have more than one occurrence of the same name.
From the Biltmore to snow-brushed national parks, festive locations in Western North Carolina are plenty. HGTV names small mountain town the best in North Carolina for the holidays. See why.
North Carolina's port city of Wilmington, was the last Confederate port to fall to the Union, in February 1865, after the Union won the nearby Second Battle of Fort Fisher, its major defense downriver. The first Confederate soldier to be killed in the Civil War was Private Henry Wyatt from North Carolina, in the Battle of Big Bethel in June 1861.