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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.
The Province of North Carolina, originally known as Albemarle Province, was a proprietary colony and later royal colony of Great Britain that existed in North America from 1712 to 1776. [ 2 ] (p. 80) It was one of the five Southern colonies and one of the thirteen American colonies .
The Province of Carolina, from 1663 to 1729, was a North American English (1663–1707), then British (from 1707 union with Scotland) colony. In 1729, the Province of North Carolina became a separate entity from the Province of South Carolina .
The Province of Carolina was a province of the Kingdom of England (1663–1707) and later the Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1712) that existed in North America and the Caribbean from 1663 until the Carolinas were partitioned into North and South in 1712.
Both the Province of North Carolina and the Province of South Carolina became British Crown Colonies in 1729. [ 8 ] During the American Civil War (1861–1865), South Carolina was the first Southern state to secede from the Union, [ 9 ] while North Carolina was the second to last state to secede.
Northampton County (/ n ɔːr ˈ θ æ m p t ə n / ⓘ nor-THAMP-tən) is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina.As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,471. [1] Its county seat is Jackson.
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.
Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula is a large peninsula (about 3,200 square miles) on the North Carolina coast, lying between the Albemarle Sound to the north and the Pamlico Sound to the south. The 5 counties of Dare , Hyde , Beaufort , Tyrrell , and Washington all lie wholly or partly on the peninsula.