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The Charlotte metropolitan area is a metropolitan area of the U.S. states of North and South Carolina, containing the city of Charlotte, North Carolina.The metropolitan area also includes the cities of Gastonia, Concord, Huntersville, and Rock Hill as well as the large suburban area in the counties surrounding Mecklenburg County, which is at the center of the metro area.
Metropolitan Statistical Area Population (2023 est.) [1] 1 22 Charlotte–Concord–Gastonia: 2,805,115 2 41 Raleigh–Cary: 1,509,231 3 78 Greensboro–High Point: 789,842 4 86 Winston-Salem: 695,630 5 94 Durham–Chapel Hill: 608,879 6 115 Wilmington: 467,337 7 131 Asheville: 417,202 8 142 Fayetteville: 392,336 9 150 Hickory–Lenoir ...
Area codes 803 and 839 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the central part of the U.S. state of South Carolina. The numbering plan area (NPA) is anchored by the city of Columbia, the state capital. It also includes most of the South Carolina portions of the Charlotte, North Carolina and Augusta, Georgia ...
North Carolina (the Research Triangle, including Raleigh, the state capital city; Durham, Cary, and Chapel Hill; and Goldsboro and other parts of north-central North Carolina) 1954 split of 704 to give North Carolina two area codes
The Piedmont Triad is sometimes confused with the Research Triangle, an adjacent urbanized region of North Carolina that includes the cities of Raleigh, Durham and the town of Chapel Hill, among others. Both of them are part of the Piedmont Crescent, a heavily urbanized region of the state that includes the city of Charlotte.
The Occaneechi Indians lived in the area of what is now Hillsborough, north of Chapel Hill, prior to European settlement. [6]The area was the home place of early settler William Barbee of Middlesex County, Virginia, whose 1753 grant of 585 acres on the north and south side of "Lick Branch" [7] from John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville was the first of two land grants in what is now the Chapel ...
Wesley Chapel is located in the townships of Monroe and Sandy Ridge in eastern Union County, North Carolina. Part of the Charlotte metropolitan area, it sits east of Weddington, north of Waxhaw, west of Monroe, and south of Indian Trail. [7] According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 9.8 square miles (25.39 km 2).
Concord is the second-most populous city in the Charlotte metropolitan area, tenth-most populous city in North Carolina and 287th-most populous city in the U.S. [11] The city was a winner of the All-America City Award in 2004. Located near the center of Cabarrus County in the Piedmont region, it is 20 miles (32 km) northeast of Uptown Charlotte.